#poison

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison. ↗

— James Forrestal

#aims #antidote #been #fact #greatly

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#been #book #books #cannot #devil

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

#poison #politeness

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ↗

— Peter Latham

#given #intents #medicine #oftentimes #poisons

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ↗

— John Locke

#fountain #parents #poisoned #streams #themselves

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

— Lucretius

#food #man #others #poison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. ↗

— James Madison

#effects #internal #itself #liberty #poisons

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#persons #poison #pure #truth #truth is

I believe in working together to solve the problems we've got. And we need to get rid of the venom in the political atmosphere in D.C. It's a poisonous atmosphere. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#believe #get #got #i #i believe

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots. ↗

— Henry Miller

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