Opium Wars Quotes

#1. Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

Jonathan Swift

#2. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#3. but tell me, who was it that made you dangerous?

it was no one.

it was me.


it was everyone.

Salma Deera

#4. Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Hesiod

#5. I cannot change another person. I let others be who they are, and I simply love who I am.

Louise Hay

#6. What need," Dunstan wondered, "could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

Neil Gaiman

#7. Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.

Nathan Kirsh

#8. Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

Rumi

#9. I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#10. I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

Dennis C. Blair

#11. 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 of tea.

Tom Standage

#12. Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.

Thurman Arnold