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Poison Quotes

What lingers after the damage is done.

These poison quotes move between the literal — warnings about polluting the country we live in — and the metaphorical, including a memorable line about how progress can flip from remedy to problem over time. Related: Food quotes.

It's a terrible poison, writing.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

The world is preoccupied with dissecting, analyzing and prognosticating on the blockchain's future; technologists, entrepreneurs, and enterprises are wondering if it is to be considered vitamin or poison.

Quotes by William Mougayar

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Quotes by William Empson

We have no right to poison, to eat up, to chew, to pollute this wonderful country of ours. We are required to save it and purify it and protect it.

Quotes by Walter F. Mondale

Energy Quotes

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.

Quotes by Val Guest

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Quotes by Simone Weil

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

First Quotes

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Quotes by Robert Trout

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Quotes by Paracelsus

The dose makes the poison.

Quotes by Paracelsus

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

Quotes by Otto Hahn

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.

Quotes by Otto Hahn

Food Quotes

We were in denial about the extent to which Britain had cured itself of the poison of racism.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

I'm a raw vegan, and I perceive pharmaceuticals to be poison.

Quotes by Nadya Suleman

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Quotes by Lucretius

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

By calling GMOs 'poison' and 'evil,' Bill Maher poisons the well of reasoned scientific discussion with ideologically driven fear mongering.

Quotes by Kyle Hill

Like Quotes

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.

Quotes by Kip Winger

Frequently Asked Questions

Are these poison quotes about literal poisoning?
Some are — one warns directly against polluting the country we live in — while others use poison more as a metaphor for damage that builds up gradually rather than a physical toxin.
What's the blockchain reference about?
One quote asks whether the blockchain will turn out to be a benefit or a poison for its industry, using the word to capture genuine uncertainty about a new technology's long-term effect.
Is there a quote about poison and progress?
Yes, it observes that today's progress can become tomorrow's poison, framing the idea that what once helped can eventually cause harm as circumstances change.
Do any quotes describe poison in a physical, bodily sense?
One poem-style quote describes poison slowly filling the bloodstream, emphasizing that it's the lingering waste, not a single dramatic moment, that ultimately causes the damage.
How does this topic connect to Food quotes?
Poison and food are closely linked in one quote about pollution and consumption, which is why our Food quotes make a natural next stop.

One quote even uses poison to question whether the blockchain will prove to be a cure or a slow-acting harm. For more on damage and its aftermath, see our Like quotes.