Browsing Topic Best Poison Quotes

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant.

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others – the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?

The world’s deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

Your compassion travels beyond your own inner circle. And then you breathe out an alternative version where you mentally and emotionally and psychologically purify the poisons. So indeed, the generative idea is in the crux of this practice and of my propensity toward poetry, which is a practice of the imagination.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it’s clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I’m always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I’m against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let’s say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

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

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.

Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?

Hate poisons your life.

Expect poison from the standing water.

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

Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.

It’s not good for comedy to be like, ‘Thanks for liking me’. Being popular is poison.

Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it’s sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.

Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy.

A tyranny based on … deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

I believe that the world isn’t always what we can see…I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out…So, if someone’s changed overnight – by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle – you have to show them what’s good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it’s total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin’s guard dogs, see fit.

My dad always told me that holding a grudge is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.