The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers.

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

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

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

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.

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

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

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

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

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.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

I squinted at her. “You’re an adult.” “You’re an adult too.” “But you’re an older adult. You’ve had more practice.” Mom leaned back and laughed.

My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

Faith, hope, and love are some good things He gave us; but the greatest is love

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.

Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.