Poison Quotes - Page 38

• Memory. My poison, my food.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Memories, Food

  Eduardo Galeano (2000). “Days and Nights of Love and War”, p.146, Pluto Press

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• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

  Lucretius

  Food, Men, May

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• Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Hate, Democracy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Literature, Fruit

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

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• Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Ego

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• A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. A new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Christian, Love Is

  Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

  Joan Baez

  Peace, Strong, Men

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

  Pablo Casals

  Rocks, Sound, Rock N Roll

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• Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

  Shinjo Ito

  Moving On, Letting Go, Ignorance

  Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

  Jonathan Swift

  Light, Two, Differences

  The Battle of the Books (1704) See Matthew Arnold 27

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• The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

  William Blake

  Crowns, Fame, Laurels

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 97

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• the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

  John Owen

  Idols, Exaltation, Thrones

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• Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

  Judith Orloff

  Love, Positive, Anger

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.25, Harmony

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• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sweet, Hate, Eye

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  Saint Augustine

  Sweet, Devil, Sin

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• [Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Integrity, Men, Soul

  "Pageant" Magazine, July 1968.

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• When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Toxic, Stories

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• My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

  John Slattery

  Mom, Memories, Purple

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, 'If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!'

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Water, Noon

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• Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Havens

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

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• 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?

  Jane Goodall

  Dark, Ideas, Agriculture

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Mar 11, 2017

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• Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order to make it “objective,” that is, separate from “I.

  Alan Watts

  Order, Names, Knowing

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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

  Albert Einstein

  Deception, Liberty, Libertarian

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• The law says if you poison the water, you’ll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you’ll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you’ll suffer... If you don’t learn that, you can only suffer. There’s no discussion with this law.

  Oren Lyons

  Air, Law, Water

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• When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.

  Mario Puzo

  Lying, Dark, Eyelashes

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