Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.