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Meanings of opium of the people in English

Russian
опиум для народа
Portuguese
a religião é o ópio do povo
Spanish
la religion es el opio del pueblo
Catalan
opi del poble

Karl Marx's description of religion: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

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опиум для народа
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Usage of opium of the people in English
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Religion is not the opium of the people but their downfall.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
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The idea of God has frequently been used as the opium of the people.
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...
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Religion, Karl Marx declared, is the opium of the people.
Brave new world revisited
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Football is still the opium of the people.
The Irish Times
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Perhaps religion is not the opium of the people, but philosophy is the opium of the politicians.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Athletic elitism, the glorification of the human body, has succeeded religion as Marx's opium of the people.
The Guardian
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Religion was the opium of the people.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
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It is the opium of the people.
The Guardian
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Karl Marx was a sharp critic of organised religion, saying it was "the opium of the people".
The Guardian
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Without the slightest apology to Karl Marx, Patrick Vassort denounces football as "the opium of the people".
The Irish Times
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It remains to be seen whether Somalians will give up their drug, which has been called the opium of the people.
Wicked plants
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When I went to my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, 15 years ago, God was and always had been the opium of the people.
The Guardian
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Thus Karl Marx (1818-1885) saw religion as 'the sigh of the oppressed creature... the opium of the people, which made this suffering bearable'.
A history of god: the 4000-year quest of judaism, christianity, ...