Opiate Quotes

Religion is the opiate of the people.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

An idea can be tested, whereas if you have no idea, nothing can be tested and you don't understand anything. The molecule that you make when you are getting sunburned or when you eat a lot of food is part of the same molecule that contains an endorphin or an opiate. No one has ever had a hypothesis about why the two are together.

If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.