Poison Quotes: Toxic Thoughts and Cautionary Words

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Lucretius, Poet

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"Superstition is the poison of the mind"

Joseph Lewis, Writer

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

Malachy McCourt, Actor

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The dose makes the poison"

Paracelsus, Scientist

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

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend"

Aeschylus, Playwright

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

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

Adam Smith, Economist

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

Simone Weil, Philosopher

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

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed"

Emma Goldman, Activist

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

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

Paracelsus, Scientist

"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"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"

Jean Cocteau, Director

"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison"

Georges Bataille, Writer

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

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"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"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Every time you get angry, you poison your own system"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"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.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

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

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison"

Cameron Diaz, Actress

"I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

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

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"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"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet"

Lionel Blue, Clergyman

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