China Quote by Andre Malraux

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

— Robert Trout

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

— Auberon Waugh

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

— Robert Trout

We are not intoxicated by power. We are concerned about the betterment of the poor, marginalised, oppressed, farmers, women, those living in villages, and…

— Yogi Adityanath

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or opiates. In…

— William S. Burroughs

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short…

— Erasmus Darwin

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

— Francis Bacon

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

— Gautama Buddha

America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws. While drugs were consumed by large numbers of people — the number of…

— L. Neil Smith

“The classic hustle is still famous, even today, for the cold purity of its execution: bring opium from India, introduce it into China00howdy Fong,…

— Thomas Pynchon

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured…

— Dennis C. Blair