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Quotes About Poisoning

she married a laborer named Charles Freeman and then promptly poisoned him and her son for the twenty-pound payout from a burial club she had enrolled them
~ Peter Vronsky
E così loro stanno tranquilli nelle loro case a rimpinguare profitti, e noi siamo tutti qui. I nostri affari sono un fallimento, i posti di lavoro si assottigliano, gli ospedali vanno a pezzi, le campagne sono allo stremo, le nostre case confiscate, i nostri corpi avvelenati, le nostre menti all'ammasso, tutto lo spirito vitale del paese è straziato, ridotto all'ultimo respiro
~ Jonathan Coe
I mean, it's not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I'm feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties. Katherine
~ Adele Parks
Considérese cuán funestas son las consecuencias que a diario trae consigo la bastardización judaica de nuestro pueblo y reflexiónese también que este envenenamiento de nuestra sangre, sólo al cabo de siglos – o tal vez jamás – podrá ser eliminado del organismo nacional. Millares de nuestros conciudadanos pasan como ciegos ante el hecho del emponzoñamiento de nuestra raza, sistemáticamente practicado por el judío
~ Adolf Hitler
The man who does not feel the slightest remorse when poisoning his customers with noxious drugs covered with pompous labels, thinks he is in honour bound to keep his engagements. But if this relative morality has developed under present conditions, when enrichment is the only incentive and the only aim, can we doubt its rapid progress when appropriation of the fruits of others' labour will no longer be the basis of society?
~ Pyotr Kropotkin
Food recommendations are a must, but be careful. A friend went to a cafe I'd suggested and got food poisoning.
~ Sarah Millican
Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and pouring off the alcohol with which he was poisoning himself into separate bottles rapidly in order to steal as much as he could before Captain Black roused himself with recollection and came hurrying over indolently to steal the rest himself.
~ Joseph Heller
We must get into the habit of paying strict attention to precisely what the fascist has to say and not to dismiss it as nonsense or hogwash. Now we have a better understanding of the emotional content of this theory, which sounds like a persecution mania when it is considered together with the theory of the poisoning of the nation.
~ Wilhelm Reich
He could have covered my mouth,' said Jerott indignantly, sitting up with great success and giving Salablanca his hand. 'He didn't want blood-poisoning,' said Lymond callously. 'Also he didn't know you're so damned slow with a knife.…
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.
~ Douglas Adams
When mercury vapours are inhaled over a long enough period of time—particularly, for our purposes, in the close quarters of a hat-making operation—toxic and irreversible effects almost inevitably follow. One develops tremors of the hands; blackened teeth; slurred speech. In severe cases, dementia or outright insanity can occur. Hence the term mad as a hatter.
~ Douglas Preston
Now, as I expect you know, there is nothing more cruel than talk, and there is nothing more difficult to combat. When people say things behind your back there is nothing you can refute or deny, and the rumours go on growing and growing, and no one can stop them. I was quite certain of one thing: Mabel was quite incapable of poisoning anyone.
~ Agatha Christie
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has shown us what can happen when we ignore the warning signs of lead poisoning and corroding pipes.
~ Elizabeth Esty
In a broader sense, the irony in all of this is the single most necessary element for life to exist, in fact, is killing everything, from our ecosystems to potentially our food supply if we're poisoning fish and the foods that we eat. That is the broader sense.
~ Erin Brockovich
Again, it is common knowledge that the movement against the fluoridation of municipal water supplies has been catnip for cranks of all kinds, especially for those who have obsessive fear of poisoning.
~ Richard Hofstadter
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
~ Henry Charles Carey
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
~ Barbra Streisand
Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,
~ David Lagercrantz
The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.
~ Elizabeth Esty
This is an example of applying an exceptionalistic solution to a universalistic problem. It is not accurate to say that lead poisoning results from the actions of individual neglectful mothers. Rather, lead poisoning is a social phenomenon supported by a number of social mechanisms, one of the most tragic by-products of the systematic toleration of slum housing.
~ William Ryan
The banal drawling frowning speech of men who don't care about what they're doing. Until forced to. Who all unawares destroy their own warrens, who poison their own food, convinced of righteousness.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
~ David Edwards
Lead poisoning is an insidious menace that robs our citizens of their fullest potential.
~ Scott Pruitt
If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market.
~ Whitney Tilson