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Quotes About Lethal

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
~ Christian Lous Lange
Well, there are without doubt species of jellyfish around the world that are potentially lethal to human beings, some of which shut beaches for entire seasons. The box jellyfish of Australasia is officially the world's most venomous creature, and has killed swimmers in the past.
~ Steve Backshall
I really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Is that really a good idea?" I asked. He tilted his head at Vince's conga line, which was collapsing in a heap of spastic hilarity. "Is that?" he said. And of course he had a point, although in terms of sheer lethal pain and terror a conga line on the floor couldn't really compete with Dr. Danco. Still, I suppose one has to consider human dignity, if it truly exists somewhere.
~ Jeff Lindsay
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
~ Martin Freeman
Ingesting them(Mistletoe and Azalea beautiful plants) can cause sickness and in some cases even death-KILLER PLANTS, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
~ Unknown
The close nexus between reductionist science, patriarchy, violence, and profits is explicit in 80 percent of scientific research that is devoted to the war industry, and is frankly aimed directly at lethal violence—
~ Vandana Shiva
The combination of ammonia and chloride can be lethal but I've discovered it can work miracles as long as you keep telling yourself, I want to love, I want to live...
~ David Sedaris
You start to think of contempt as a virus. Infecting individuals first, but spreading rapidly through families, communities, peoples, power structures, nations. Less flashy than hate. More deadly. When contempt kills you, it doesn't have to be a vendetta or even entirely conscious. It can be a passing whim. It's far more common, and therefore more lethal.
~ Zadie Smith
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.
~ Cory Doctorow
Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
~ Craig Johnson
Despite his size and broad-shouldered build, there was a feline quality about him... he was like a lazy but potentially deadly tiger.
~ Lisa Kleypas
From around the blind curve of the trail, the main appeared. He was tall, built, and armed and dangerous, though not to her physical well-being. Nope, nothing about the tough, sinewy, gorgeous forest ranger was a threat to her body. But Matt Bowers was lethal to her peace of mind.
~ Jill Shalvis
I have always found the man to be a spineless, venomous, bore. I have often hoped that he would contract some wasting disease which would expose him to lethal levels of humiliation.
~ Jim Butcher
Life with these people had the distorted logic of dreams, and Patricia Hearst seems to have accepted it with the wary acquiescence of the dreamer. Any face could turn against her. Any move could prove lethal.
~ Joan Didion
It has long been clear that women who leave violent partners are at risk of death or serious injury. What hasn't sufficiently been recognised until now is that abusers who can no longer hurt members of their own families, might, in a small number of cases pose a lethal threat to total strangers. Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, Rachid Redouane and Darren Osborne had all been thrown out by their partners in the weeks or months before they committed a terrorist attack
~ Unknown
If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.
~ Rachel Carson
All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
~ Rachel Carson
Ino the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects, The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for man.
~ Rachel Carson
Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It's better to leave no prints behind.
~ Dean Koontz
When a doctor is prescribing a lethal concoction to be taken orally, the drugs are best taken in a dissolved liquid, which can be downed quickly. The occasional delayed-action death is almost always caused by the patient falling asleep before taking enough.
~ Derek Humphry
history have noted that the sheer concentration of power in government is lethal—that only a sense of absolute unchecked power can make atrocities like the Rape of Nanking possible.
~ Iris Chang
Like me, it is comfortably lethal in a wide range of environments.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.
~ Michael Mann