Confucianism Quote by Robert Trout Download Open image “Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.” — Robert Trout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Confucianism Drug Opium Use
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 Copy Share Image
Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac… — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise. — Jean Danielou Copy Share Image
A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Confucianism is not a religion but rather a system of moral philosophy that originated in China in the teachings of Kong Fuzi (558–471 BCE),” — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius Copy Share Image
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The House of the Venerable and Inscrutable Colonel was what they called it when they were speaking Chinese. Venerable because of his goatee, white… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I was raised a Christian but have looked at other religions, some of the Eastern things. I was into Taoism for a while and… — Rick Springfield Copy Share Image
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who… — Confucius Copy Share Image
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like? — Confucius Copy Share Image
When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to… — Confucius Copy Share Image