Poison Quotes - Page 35

• The animate earth - this moody terrain that we experience differently in anger and in joy, in grief and in love - is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity

  David Abram

  Grief, Dark, Science

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• Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

  George Lois

  Eye, Tears, Advertising

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• Live or die but don't poison everything.

  Saul Bellow

  Dies

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Running, Oil, Islands

  "Top Gear", October 31, 2004.

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• A potent poison becomes the best drug on proper administration. On the contrary, even the best drug becomes a potent poison if used badly

  Charaka

  Drug, Administration, Used

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• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

  Chris Wooding

  Real, Book, Journey

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• Slander is poison to the soul.

  David O. McKay

  Gossip, Soul, Slander

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• I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people when it is absolute poison. When it is absolutely destructive.

  Matt Dillahunty

  Compassion, People, Trying

  "I've transcribed Matt Dillahunty's beautiful rant on The Atheist Experience 696 for your reading pleasure. Most likely a gigantic waste of time, but someone might have a use for it". Interview on "The Atheist Experience", rebrn.com. February 13, 2011.

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• The three values which men had held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism — as a cultural power — died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism — as a political ideal — died in World War II. As to altruism — it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Civilization

  "Philosophy: Who Needs It".

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• Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

  Michael Hyatt

  Medicine, Criticism, Dose

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2017

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• If you knew that you were the owner of a million-dollar mind, would you treat your mind with more respect and appreciation? Would you put less poison in a million-dollar mind? Pay attention to what poisons you may be feeding your mind with & how now keeping your mind clear and healthy could make you more effective.

  Marshall Sylver

  Appreciation, Healthy, Mind

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• I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

  Jean Reno

  Lying, Men, Giving

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• Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison.  It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it.  Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.

  Lee Strobel

  Hurt, Pain, People

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Mind, Pay

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• One Man's food is another Man's Poison

  Lucretius

  Men, Another Man, One Man

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• The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Islamic, Ideas

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Money, Insecure, Making Money

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• In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, United States, Warfare

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• Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

  Humphry Davy

  Consistency, Intellectual, Energy

  Sir Humphry Davy (1858). “Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence”, p.53

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• If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons? He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons. He poison-gassed his own people. He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors. This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people. So this is a way to save lives and to save the stability and peace of a region of the world that is important to the peace and security of the entire world.

  Al Gore

  Men, Mass Destruction, People

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• A full scale nuclear exchange, lasting less than 60 minutes...could wipe out more than 300 million Americans, Europeans, and Russians, as well as untold numbers elsewhere. And the survivors-as Chairman Khrushchev warned the Communist Chinese, `the survivors would envy the dead.' For they would inherit a world so devastated by explosions and poison and fire that today we cannot conceive of its horrors.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fire, Numbers, Envy

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• Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.

  Winona LaDuke

  Responsibility, Land, People

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.55, Voyageur Press (MN)

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Positive Thinking, Lost Ones

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• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Broken, Progress

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.

  Pope Francis

  Nice, Heart, Gossip

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Infinite Tenderness of God: Meditations on the Gospels”, p.39, The Word Among Us Press

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