In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)
I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.
Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood.
Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.
The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.
Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.
I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.
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!'
Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or. . . " "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well. . . after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes. " "Let's avoid the swords," I decided.
All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.