Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit instigate brutal life and death struggles destroy a society's tolerance and humanity and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

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

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

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison that he cannot trust a friend.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails they try to poison you. If this fails too the finish by loading honors on your head.

We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Woes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.

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.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Every article I wrote in those days every speech I made is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Well the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war is not a disease not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Good humor is the health of the soul sadness is its poison.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion jealousy and hatred as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

When there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom others when it is a bitter tonic and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Temptation is like a knife that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man it may be his food or his poison his exercise or his destruction.

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans and not all of them have brought the best of luck to NFL Films. We got robbed twice there got food poisoning and my hotel room was broken into on the day the Bears played the Patriots in January 1986.