Poisoning Quotes - Page 5

• How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, Air, People

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• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Forgiveness, Self, Forgiving

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• The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying about poisoning a river.

  David Letterman

  Lying, Rivers, Dancing

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• The 'regular' school of medicine, as a body, has ignored and will ignore this science, because it discloses the fallacy of their favorite theories and practices and because it reveals unmistakably the direful results of chronic drug poisoning and ill-advised operations.

  Henry Lindlahr

  School, Practice, Medicine

  Henry Lindlahr (1974). “Natural Therapeutics: Iridiagnosis and Other Diagnostic Methods”, p.12, Health Research Books

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Generosity

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Liars, School

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• For me, its better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.

  Bahman Ghobadi

  Phones, Worry, Over You

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

  Eric Schlosser

  Facts, Matter, Cases

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• If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

  David Hume

  Life, Death, Reflection

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics

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• I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse.

  George Carlin

  Ocean, Cutting, Men

  "George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic to assume that the present economy would be just fine if only it would stop poisoning the air and water, or if only it would stop soil erosion, or if only it would stop degrading watersheds and forest ecosystems, or if only it would stop seducing children, or if only it would stop buying politicians, or if only it would give women and favored minorities an equitable share of the loot?

  Wendell Berry

  Children, Air, Ecosystems

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.

  Frederick Buechner

  War, Home, People

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• It's unnecessary to make that, you know, strong of a statement. Let the facts, let the case, you know, and the evidence there speak for itself. You want to be careful that you're not poisoning the jury pool.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Strong, Want, Facts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do it better than we do. It's not that they don't have food-poisoning incidents; it's that there are many fewer in proportion to the population.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Moving, Safety

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.

  Marion Nestle

  Space, Safe, Tests

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

  Marion Nestle

  Years, Disease, Littles

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

  Andrew Revkin

  Profound, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everything that I'm seeing in America, when it comes to the groundwater contamination and the poisoning of people I see, it's a moral issue. Nobody's ever gonna convince me that a CEO wouldn't care if his own child was poisoned.

  Erin Brockovich

  Children, America, Issues

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

  Jeremy Piven

  Men, Sound, Lamborghini

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• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

  DJ Quik

  Kids, Men, Looks

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2014.

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• The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless handling of atomic technology, through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure.

  Max Born

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

  Camille Paglia

  Mind, Sexuality, Veneer

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.66, Vintage

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• Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.

  Larry Hagman

  Years, Giving, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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