Plague Quotes

276 Plague quotes by 229 unique authors

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… — Paul Davies
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the… — Larry Kramer
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts… — Larry Kramer
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that… — Paul Berg
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. — Danai Gurira
Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city. — Louis Eric Barrier
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to… — Wilfred Trotter
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and… — Tom Van Vleck
The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences… — Felicity Huffman
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But… — Edward Abbey
The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting… — John F. Kennedy
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us… — Ambrose Bierce
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect… — Ben Jonson
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat,… — John the Apostle
For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the… — John F. Kennedy
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by… — Eric Hoffer
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant… — Marshall McLuhan
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. — Alexander Pope
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater… — Norman Mailer
Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot… — Philip Guston
Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work,… — Roy Baumeister
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. — Robert Genn
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. — St. Jerome
Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man… — John Muir
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is… — Rachel Carson

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