1. "Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"
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Quote by Edmund Wilson
2. "Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom."
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Sebastian Faulks, The Fatal Englishman: Three Short Lives
3. "Religion is opium for the masses"
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Quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
4. "Optimism is the opium of the people."
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Milan Kundera, The Joke
5. "Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged."
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Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
6. "Religion is the opium of the poor"
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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
7. "Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium."
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Gideon Defoe, The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists
8. "Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world, except for that of the sea."
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John Baxter, The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
9. "The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable."
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Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
10. "That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only."
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Sebastian Faulks, Engleby