
“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
"The Muscular Opiate," The New York Times (1967-10-03)
“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”
Source: Postcards from the Edge
“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)
Attributed
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.
Source: Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
“Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.”
“Mass Immigration ‘End of Days’ Scenario,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=568 WorldNetDaily.com, October 1, 2010.
2010s, 2010
2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)
We Asked Australian Diver Matthew Mitcham Why More Gay Athletes Aren't Coming Out https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/wdapzw/we-asked-olympian-matthew-mitcham-why-more-gay-athletes-arent-coming-out, Vice.nz, October 12, 2016.