A Quote by Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.

Karl Marx

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Karl Marx
German - Philosopher
May 5, 1818 - March 14, 1883

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

Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

Gideon Defoe

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

Edgar Snow

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

Phillip Adams

Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

Czeslaw Milosz

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Simone Weil

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Auberon Waugh

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Karl Marx

Religion is the opium of the poor.

Ernest Hemingway

It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.

Frei Betto

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

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

Thomas Szasz

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.'

Geoff Dyer

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

George Bernard Shaw

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