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.
1 Religion is not the opium of the people but their downfall.
2 The idea of God has frequently been used as the opium of the people .
3 Religion, Karl Marx declared, is the opium of the people .
4 Football is still the opium of the people .
5 Perhaps religion is not the opium of the people , but philosophy is the opium of the politicians.
6 Athletic elitism, the glorification of the human body, has succeeded religion as Marx's opium of the people .
7 Religion was the opium of the people .
8 It is the opium of the people .
9 Karl Marx was a sharp critic of organised religion, saying it was "the opium of the people " .
10 Without the slightest apology to Karl Marx, Patrick Vassort denounces football as "the opium of the people " .
11 It remains to be seen whether Somalians will give up their drug, which has been called the opium of the people .
12 When I went to my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, 15 years ago, God was and always had been the opium of the people .
13 Thus Karl Marx (1818-1885) saw religion as 'the sigh of the oppressed creature... the opium of the people , which made this suffering bearable'.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Translations for opium of the people