Quotes with poison

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  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Georges Bataille Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Edwin H. Land Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
    Edwin H. Land
    American scientist and inventor (0 - 1991)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Walter Bagehot Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Remorse is the poison of life.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Adam Smith Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bob Dylan Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
    You will not die, it's not poison
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • P. Fletcher The coward's weapon, poison.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jean Cocteau 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, they finish by loading honors on your head.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • William Blake The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • André Maurois There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Ben Jonson There be some men who are born only to suck out the poison of books.
    Works
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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