Pestilence Quotes

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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake
The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism… — William Hazlitt
A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great… — Winston Churchill
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it — George Bernard Shaw
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come… — Tycho Brahe
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,… — James A. Garfield
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind — Rajendra K. Pachauri
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I… — Piers Morgan
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situationâ€”without the pestilence of panic or fear. — Ryan Holiday
The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,… — Frank Borman
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! — Thomas Nashe
Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down… — Albert Camus
Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of… — Bertrand Russell
As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there… — George R. Stewart
Here is a fearful enemy of God and man â€” the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their… — Neal S. Dow
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease… — Johann Most
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence… — Richard Dawkins

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