These are believers perpetuating a new opium for the people.

Religion is opium for the people.

Until recently, Mr. Banai says, "Israeli music was opium for the people.

The first album under their own label was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released in 1996.

1996: Opium fürs Volk (Opium for the people)

'Spiritual Opium' Another intellectual, a writer, grumbled: "It is spiritual opium for the people.

Opium fürs Volk (Opium for the people) is the seventh studio album by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen.

Actually as early as 1905, Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik party, berated religion in Novaya Zhizn in 1905 "... Religion is opium for the people."

In 1977 Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth recruited the band to tour with them under the name Planet Gong, and this combination released a live album Floating Anarchy 1977 and a single "Opium for the People".

The second admonition was issued for contributions to Navinki No.11, published under the heading "Opium for the People" and for a title in the analyses section of Navinki No. 8, which the Ministry for Information found "jeopardising public morals".