Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“...my war on commas. They are a pestilence. They must be stopped.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“What it wanted were minds to fill with gnawing pestilence and souls it could eat raw and squirming.” — Tim Curran Copy Share Image
The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Okay, boys.” Pestilence's grating voice rang out. “Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the city, Pestilence was raising an army for its fellow horseman, Death.” — Steve Hockensmith Copy Share Image
War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the… — Fitz-Greene Halleck Copy Share Image
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last fifty years, is the wonderful increase… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“The locust has no king Just noise and hard language They talk me over” — David Eugene Edwards Copy Share Image
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
