Poison Quotes

875 Poison quotes by 609 unique authors

We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument...Hence all sin, whatever else… — C.S. Lewis
The idea that we live in a post-modern culture is a myth. In fact a post-modern culture is an impossibility; it would be utterly unlivable.… — William Lane Craig
In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every… — Herbert Hoover
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds… — Charles Baudelaire
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the… — Martin Luther
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. — Pema Chodron
There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the… — Steven Brust
We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill,… — Chris Hedges
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Unknown Author
The feminists hate me, don't they? And I don't blame them. For I hate feminism. It is poison. — Margaret Thatcher
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills. — William Empson
A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too… — Steven Erikson
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by… — Charles Sumner
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys… — PZ Myers
We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't… — Denis Hayes
Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a… — Jane Goodall
Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison,… — John Owen
You should never poison a witch. — Kelly Link
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as… — Otto Hahn
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but… — Otto Hahn

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