“"Religion is the opiate of the masses.""I did masses of opiates religiously.”
Carrie Fisher book Postcards from the Edge
Source: Postcards from the Edge
“In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.”
"The Muscular Opiate," The New York Times (1967-10-03)
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“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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Thomas Mann book Deutsche Ansprache
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.
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Source: Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
“Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.”
Ilana Mercer South African writer
“Mass Immigration ‘End of Days’ Scenario,” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=568 WorldNetDaily.com, October 1, 2010. <br class="br">2010s, 2010
Ted Cruz (1970) American politician
2010s, Speech at the Republican National Convention (July 20, 2016)
Merold Westphal (1940)
Source: Kierkegaard’s Critique of Reason and Society (1992), p. 50
Matthew Mitcham (1988) Australian diver
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