A Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
American - Writer
April 13, 1919 - September 29, 1995

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

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

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

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

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

Carrie Fisher

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

Thomas Szasz

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

N.D. Wilson

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

Emma Thompson

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

Religion is the opiate of the people.

Karl Marx

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

M is for Marx And clashing of classes And movement of masses And massing of asses.

Cyril Connolly

For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".