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.

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.

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

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.

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

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

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.

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.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

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

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

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.

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

There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

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.

I think that testosterone is a rare poison.

One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.

No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.

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.

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

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

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

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

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

The coward's weapon, poison.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

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.

Superstition is the poison of the mind.