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

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"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

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"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

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

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Andre Maurois, Writer

"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

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

Adam Smith, Economist

"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

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

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

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

Paracelsus, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

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

Gisele Bundchen, Model

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

Greg Walden, Politician

"The dose makes the poison"

Paracelsus, Scientist

"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

"I think that testosterone is a rare poison"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"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

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

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"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

"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

"At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did"

Otto Hahn, Scientist

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

Malachy McCourt, Actor

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing"

Kip Winger, Musician