Sentences with phrase «opiates of»

Learning is best fostered when schools draw boundaries that separate classroom studies from the opiates of street life.

They call out the self - cancelling effects of sought - after acclaim, pointing to Richardson whom Roiphe is convinced, «would have written poetry to equal Auden's if only his desire for fame and fortune hadn't driven him half mad with the need for opiates of any brand.»

Religion, the opiate of the masses.

Also religion has been described as the opiate of the masses and I believe that is true to an extent, since religion and praying helps to calm one down and provide a time for thought and reflection similar to meditation without the connecting to a higher power thing.

Religion truly is the opiate of the masses.

«Religion is the opiate of the people» - so kill millions in the process.

Religion is so vulnerable to the temptation to be exactly as Karl Marx described it: the opiate of the masses.

This disposition rests not on piety, patriotism, or defensive nostalgia (the opiate of the South), but on a bleak assessment of human possibilities.

The one thing that Lenin said that is a total truth is that «religion is the opiate of the masses.»

Students have the right to air extremist political «doctrine,» secular philosophical «doctrine,» even, presumably, the «doctrine» that God is dead and that religion is the opiate of the people.

He also subscribes to the «religion is the opiate of the masses» philosophy and believes only the weak and those of limited intellectual capacity need the «crutch» of religion to explain that which they can not understand.

Marx never said God was the opiate of the masses, he specifically said religion.

Far from serving up Isaiah - like hammer blows, modern - day stand - up is all too often the opiate of the masses.

«Opiate of the masses»?

Religion is the opiate of the masses and a way to control public opinion and thought.

People need to wake up and understand that religion is the «opiate of the masses».

Every dictator which includes Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, etc.... held no particular religious belief, but instead looked upon religion as the «opiate of the people».

My initial assessment is that the average government employee up here agrees with Karl Marx, who said that «religion is the opiate of the masses.»

As shown in what you just quoted, Stalin, following Lenin's policies, targeted religious people because it was the opiate of the masses and took away from his authority.

Who was it that said» religion is the opiate of the people»??? I do not recall, was it Marx or Lennin?

As someone said: «Religion is the opiate of the masses».

The opiate of the masses.

In an interesting chapter on the Marxian theme of religion as the «opiate of the people», Jose Miguez Bonino welcomes the criticism «as a valid warning against the self - deception and confusion which so easily creep into a political programme of any sort when it is clothed in religious language».

Religion which has not lost its utopianism is the opposite of the opiate of the people.

When Lenin said that religion is the opiate of the people, I know exactly and intimately what he means.

When Karl Marx spoke scornfully of religion as the opiate of the people, no doubt he had in mind the practices of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting; these, he said, diverted attention from matters of social justice and gave people a good conscience when their conscience ought to be troubled.

, and some make political arguments (religion is the opiate of the masses), but each one could be answered in theory.

«Opiate of the Masses» was the expression.

Same for Marx's accusation that religion is the «opiate of the people.»

But the scientists and historians know that the days of religion as an opiate of the masses are numbered.

But on the other hand, to ignore the sociopolitical factors in order to accent religion and culture only serves to make the latter the opiate of the people.

In another sense, it is a vague longing for a religious «fix» — what Marx liked to call «the opiate of the people.»

The opiate of the masses is not about to tell them to rise up and revolt.

But — and this is a huge qualifier — if that message of justification by God's undeserved love is preached apart from an unmasking of the actual power relations which have aggravated these feelings to the level of a social neurosis; if people are released from the rat race of upward mobility only privatistically, with no critique of the economic and social ideology that stimulates such desperate cravings; if people are liberated from a bad sense of themselves without any sense of mission to change the conditions that waste human beings in such a way, then justification by faith becomes a mystification of the actual power relations, and the Christian gospel is indeed the opiate of the masses.

Today television may be challenged as being the opiate of the 20th century fatigued person.

Last century Marx criticised religion as being the opiate of the masses because it suppressed radical challenge to the system.

There are those that believe that God does not exist, that religion is the opiate of the masses, etc..

Both were reared as Protestants but attacked all religion as «the opiate of the people» and intellectually untenable in a scientific age.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff — Clare Boothe Luce

Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Religion IS the Opiate of the masses.

If pie is the opiate of the masses, pass me the syringe.

But if you are remotely inclined to attach some higher standards to colleges and universities, if you would like to think of gambling as an opiate of the streetwise and uneducated, the trend is disarming.

Is touchy - feely environmentalism a new opiate of the people?

Likewise, if Mars Bars are your opiate of choice, your face — more than your skinny jeans — is likely to out you.

Opiate of the Masses I am interested in meeting others who are passionate about discussing religious philosophy and the reasons why people abide to antiquated religious constructs...

The omnipotent church hierarchy, led by Christopher Plummer, has become a literal «opiate of the masses,» as Marx once put it.

It's still the cinematic opiate of the masses.

-- The Times «You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one - woman opiate of the people.»

Technically, communism outlawed religion (opiate of the masses, and all that), but Ceaușescu happened to love religious music, particularly religious choral music.