quotes about Opiates
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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
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Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
-- Audrey NiffeneggerSource : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.513, Simon and Schuster
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Heterosexuality is the opiate of the masses
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Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.
-- Chuck PalahniukSource : Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
-- Clare Boothe LuceSource : 1955 In Newsweek, 24 Jan.
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It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.
-- Eric Hoffer -
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
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Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
-- Henry Miller -
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
-- John Cowper PowysSource : John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon
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Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?
-- Libba Bray -
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 -
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... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.
-- Shannon Hale -
Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.
-- Thurman ArnoldSource : Thurman Wesley Arnold (1950). “The Folklore of Capitalism”, p.16, Transaction Publishers
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I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.
-- Elaine EquiSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.
-- Madalyn Murray O'Hair -