Plague Quotes
276 quotes by 229 authors
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the…
— John W. Gardner
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the…
— Isak Dinesen
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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts…
— Mary Robinson
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When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that…
— Unknown Author
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The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
— Michael Pollan
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The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in…
— William J. Clinton
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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
— George MacDonald
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the…
— Norman Douglas
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Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.
— Carl Froch
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America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!
— Unknown Author
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Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'
— Charlton Heston
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If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign…
— Barbara Amiel
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Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it?…
— Unknown Author
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
— Peter Straub
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my…
— Yayoi Kusama
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