Poison Quotes: Toxic Thoughts and Cautionary Words

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

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

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

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

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"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

"Superstition is the poison of the mind"

Joseph Lewis, Writer

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"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

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

Winston Churchill, Statesman

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

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"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

"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

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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

Adam Smith, Economist

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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

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

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

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

Anne Sexton, Poet

"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 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

"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

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

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

Gisele Bundchen, Model

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

Walter Bagehot, Author

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

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"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

"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"

Ernestine L. Rose

"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

"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

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

Paracelsus, Scientist

"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague"

John Armstrong

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly"

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Public Servant

"It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys"

Geezer Butler, Musician

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