Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not? — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. — Charles Dickens 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
When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham 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
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy 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
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already… — Malcolm X 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
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
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
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts… — Neal S. Dow Copy Share Image
[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic… — William H. Stewart Copy Share Image
Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,… — James A. Garfield 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
“This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense, More bodies are consumed… — Anonymous 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
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in… The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or,… — George Eliot 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
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky,… — John Milton 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
![“The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2db/h-l-mencken-245_banking_the-federal-bank-deposit-insurance-schem_1553577.jpg)
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