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

Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher
American - Actress
October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016

Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Raymond Aron retorted that Marxist ideas were in turn the opiate of the intellectuals. There is perspicacity in both these polemical thrusts. But is perspicacity truth? I wish to suggest that perhaps truth has been the real opiate, of both the masses and the intellectuals.

Immanuel Wallerstein

I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.

Emma Thompson

In 1844, Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the masses." He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, "Religion is the aspirin of the people."

Kurt Vonnegut

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

Fred Hampton

I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.

Neil Gaiman

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

Bill Watterson

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Chuck Palahniuk

Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses

Bruce LaBruce

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

Russell Baker

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

Thomas Szasz

The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.

Adolf Hitler

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.

Adolf Hitler

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better

Mao Zedong

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