"The East India Company established a monopoly over……" — Robert Trout
"The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal."
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19 Quotes by Robert Trout
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The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire:…
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At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only…
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A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure,…
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The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members,…
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Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
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Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity…
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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.
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From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally…
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
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We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should…
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The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
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More Bengal Quotes
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We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.
— Eamon Dunphy
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The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of…
— Qurratulain Hyder
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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to…
— Jan Gehl
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The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately…
— Swami Vivekananda
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See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the…
— Herman Melville
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The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in…
— Ricky Jay
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In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I…
— Sunil Gangopadhyaya
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns.…
— Satyajit Ray
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