Poisoned Quotes

173 Poisoned quotes by 143 unique authors

A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea. — Peter O'Toole
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early… — Thomas Paine
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. — Charlie Chaplin
A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can… — Rajneesh
Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their… — Lewis Browne
But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a… — Jonathan Swift
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned… — Alice Hamilton
Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters… — Matthew Henry
There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral… — Howard Lyman
Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous… — Norman Finkelstein
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore… — Mark Slouka
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of… — Gerald Brenan
We have been poisoned by fairy tales. — Anais Nin
A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a… — Keith Olbermann
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a… — Robertson Davies
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern… — Steven Johnson
To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally human. Of course...… — Rick Yancey
Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we… — Wayne Muller
To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person. — Mason Cooley
If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? — Derrick Jensen
What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery? — William Shakespeare
Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of… — John Cleese
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales — Don Henley
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a… — Edna Ferber

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