Plague Quotes
276 quotes by 234 authors
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
— Diane Ackerman
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a…
— Jenson Button
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to…
— Angela Carter
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to…
— Maya Angelou
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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
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be…
— Martin Luther
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not…
— William Shakespeare
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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the…
— Malcolm X
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And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
— Daniel Defoe
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If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart,…
— Joss Whedon
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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of…
— Jules Henry
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society,…
— Jeremy Collier
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The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If…
— Boyd K. Packer
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The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
— James Reston
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to look…
— John Graunt
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