Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
God is the new drug.
Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.