Chinese Quote by Robert Trout Download Open image “Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.” — Robert Trout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Enemy Opium Poison Saws
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
“The Treaty of Tianjin and the Convention of Peking that ended the Second Opium War gave Kowloon – an area next to Hong Kong… — Gordon Kerr Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ...… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Opium had been prescribed as laudanum, a liquid ‘medicine’ that was also very popular among working-class men and women struggling to adapt to the… — Andrew Marr 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
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
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
