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