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

“Religion is the opium of the poor”

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

“One of those leaders of what they call the social revolution has said that religion is the opiate of the people. Opium…opium…opium, yes. Let us give them opium so that they can sleep and dream.”

“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.”

“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”

“Strength without agility is a mere mass.”

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

“In the Middle Ages, people still reckoned on God - the cathedrals they built make that plain. But as time went by man tried to get rid of God. Marxism is nothing else than a gigantic attempt to put God on the shelf. They have tried to replace Him by technology. Scholars, in their attempt to prove that God does not exist, have resorted to the pen. And the masses have shouted: "Religion is the opium of the people.”

“Charity… is the opium of the privileged.”