Toxic Substances Quotes

I am afraid of radium and polonium ... I don't want to monkey with them.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

Let him not throw urine or feces into the water, nor saliva, nor clothes defiled by impure substances, nor any other impurity, nor blood, nor poisonous things.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns.

Heaven knows that alcohol is the worst thing in the world, but it's debatable whether cocaine is worse than caffeine or whether it's the same thing and they just changed the name.

Every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

Buy a nickel bag, smoke a little lye, get high tonight, get high tonight.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

They are not valuable wetlands. They are degraded industrial wastelands.

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

Chemical waste products are the droppings of science.

What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

The planet is being polluted with many forms of wastes.