But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Albert Camus's 'La Peste' - 'The Plague' - had an enormous impact on me when I read it in high school French… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community. — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch… — Horace Copy Share Image
Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. — Peter Paul Rubens Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
