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«The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions»
«Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.»
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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«Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed»
«Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously»
«In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.»
«OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.»
«The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
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«It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.»