Robert Trout Quotes & Sayings

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

“A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.”

“Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.”

“The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.”

“Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.”

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

“We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.”

“Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.”

“The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.”

“From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.”