People Sniffing Petrol

Famous quotes containing the words people, sniffing and/or petrol:

    There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
    ‘She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine.’
    Unknown. Cocaine Lil (l. 27–28)

    What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)