Poisonous Quotes
150 quotes by 133 authors
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
— Chanakya
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism…
— William Hazlitt
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Deep is the sea, and deep is hell, but pride mineth deeper; it is coiled as a poisonous worm about the foundations of the soul.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Your ego is just an idea implanted in your mind. It is poisonous. Your ego keeps driving you madder and madder.
— Rajneesh
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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
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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
— Winston Churchill
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In reality, everything is within; the outer is just a projection. Fear is within you; it is projected as a hell. Hell is just a…
— Rajneesh
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Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot…
— Albertus Magnus
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It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use…
— Thomas Dreier
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In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into…
— Eric Hoffer
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Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.
— Claude Bernard
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Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in…
— Scott McClellan
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The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous…
— Daniel Handler
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If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas;…
— John Donne
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Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
— William James
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