Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 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
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and… — Clarence Darrow 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
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
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far… — Albert Camus 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
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because… — Nichiren 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
There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?...… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures,… — George R. Stewart 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
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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