Poison Quotes

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Someone needs to remind American CEOs that if you can't run a company that is innovative, financially sound and doesn't poison the rest of us, You can't run a company.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

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.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

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 I did know of that prohibition.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.