Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
Religion is the opium of the people translated from the German Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkessometimes misquoted as opiate of the people.
Television in its present form...[is] the opiate of the people of the United States.
The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff.
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
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."
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.
I did masses of opiates religiously.