“Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919–1995) Atheist activist
Quoted without citation by Nathaniel J. Ehrlich, Psychology and contemporary affairs, p. 78 (1972)
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“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”
— Carrie Fisher, book Postcards from the Edge
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