“Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.”
Quoted without citation by Nathaniel J. Ehrlich, Psychology and contemporary affairs, p. 78 (1972)
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair 9
Atheist activist 1919–1995Related quotes
“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
Source: Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
“In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.”
"The Muscular Opiate," The New York Times (1967-10-03)
On German fascism, in "An Appeal to Reason" ["Deutsche Ansprache. Ein Appell an die Vernunft"] in Berliner Tageblatt (18 October 1930); as translated by Helen T. Lowe-Porter in Order of the Day, Political Essays and Speeches of Two Decades (1942), p. 57
Context: This fantastic state of mind, of a humanity that has outrun its ideas, is matched by a political scene in the grotesque style, with Salvation Army methods, hallelujahs and bell-ringing and dervishlike repetition of monotonous catchwords, until everybody foams at the mouth. Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.
“If religion was the opium of the masses, then communism was the methamphetamine of the masses.”
Biblical Series III: God and the Hierarchy of Authority https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GPAl_q2QQ
Biblical Lectures
"Let us advance under the banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea" http://www.korea-dpr.com/lib/Kim%20Jong%20Il%20-%204/LET%20US%20ADVANCE%20UNDER%20THE%20BANNER%20OF%20MARXISM.pdf (3 May 1983)
