Desire Quote by Townsend Harris

“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

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase…

— Townsend Harris

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

I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.

— John Lydon

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

— Sebastian Faulks

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.

— Anais Nin

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

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

— John Milton

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

— Robert Trout

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

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

— Sean O'Casey

“drugs, hard. Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the law was changed in the United Kingdom to ensure that the production and supply…

— william donaldson