Quotes About Opiate

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

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Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.

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

I asked Dr. Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night before......I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.

Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the masses. Carrie Fisher: I did masses of opiates religiously.

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.

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It's all biology. If it weren't for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn't think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.

Human courage is an opiate but opiates are human too. If God is an opiate so am I. Therefore eat me. Eat the night

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.

Faith, thought Eszter . . . is not a matter of believing something, but believing that somehow things could be different; in the same way, music was not the articulation of some better part of ourselves, or a reference to some notion of a better world, but a disguising of the fact of our irredeemable selves and the sorry state of the world, but no, not merely a disguising but a complete, twisted denial of such facts: it was a cure that did not work, a barbiturate that functioned as an opiate.

And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital and it is two years since my last admission. Those nights in A&E haunt me, and will probably do so forever, with their brutality and pain. No wonder I took a bit more, then a bit more, until it all spiralled out of control. No wonder I tried to run from those damaging memories into the arms of mother opiate. Charlie

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.

It's a chicken instinct. He's here for a reason. It's time to step in, face Deus Brânquia, force Hoffstetler's experiments to completion. No, not Deus Brânquia. The asset, that's all it is. Why has he started thinking of it as Deus Brânquia again? He's got to stop that. The good old Alabama Howdy-do, the heavy-duty Farm-Master 30 cattle prod, is long and straight in his palm, a handrail guiding him from an opiate haze back into the real world.

If in a relationship there is no tension [meaning no deepening of knowledge of self and others], it ceases to be a relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep state, an opiate - which most people want and prefer.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals -- With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

In today's pick-and-mix culture, evolutionary psychology proposes itself as yet another possible opiate for the people. Freud and Marx are dead – so long live Darwin.

America? said Gamesh, smiling. Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.