- Terrible
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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.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dose makes the poison.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020