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"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium."
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"It was like the beginning of the end of the world."
"We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create."
"He wanted to grind every Federation world into dust beneath his boot as his army blazed a trail of blood and corpses all the way to Seneca.He wanted to storm their inner sanctum and fire a laser into the skull of their Field Marshal while their Chairman watched, then fire a laser into the skull of their Chairman.He wanted to burn their bodies on a pyre and carry the ashes back to Deucali and spread them on his mother's consecrated grave."
"Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression."
"You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue."
"I have seen enough. I am ready to see the world die."
"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
"There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying."
"Society establishment minus laws of God equals chaos and destruction."
"Anything man can make, man can destroy."
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"The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal."
"The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed."
"Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived."
"The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians."
"The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption."
"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."
"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."
"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."
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