Robert Trout Quotes

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Midnight, Event

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Mind, Human

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Battle, Revolution, Philosophy

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, True, Understand

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enemies, Foreign, Poison

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ugly, India, British

• Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Condemned, Opium

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Society

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Addiction

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Company, Army

• The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Human

• The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke’s philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy, American

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Read

• 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.

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Society

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Company

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

  Robert Trout

  Topics in Fear

Robert Trout (18)

Birth:	15th October, 1909
Death:	14th November, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Broadcaster

About

Robert "Bob" Trout was an American broadcast news reporter, best known for his radio work before and during World War II. He became known to some as the "Iron Man of Radio" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as his stamina, composure, and elocution.

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