Plague Quotes

276 quotes by 234 authors

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
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. — Daniel Berrigan
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. — Daniel Defoe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — James Reston
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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