Poisoned Quotes

173 quotes by 151 authors

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back… — James A. Baldwin
It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned… — Gabriel Byrne
Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. — Cleopatra
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on… — Robert Redford
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves… — U Thant
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned… — Lucretia Mott
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when… — Joseph Hall
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are… — Joseph Addison
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it… — Henry David Thoreau
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was… — Charles Spurgeon
Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are full of hate.… — Rajneesh
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to… — Rajneesh
A Jesus had to be crucified because he was an alive man. He must have called in his childhood, "Jesus, don't be befooled by others."… — Rajneesh
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far… — Rajneesh
When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are… — Wes Jackson
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own… — Gao Xingjian
Greed has poisoned men's souls — Charlie Chaplin

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