Plague Quotes

276 Plague quotes by 229 unique authors

In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination… — Napoleon Bonaparte
That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is… — Richard Carrier
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from… — Wilfrid Sheed
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies… — William Hazlitt
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague,… — Uri Geller
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England… — Russell Crowe
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever… — Edsger Dijkstra
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem… — James Fenton
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet. — Naveen Jain
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. — Ludwig von Mises
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social… — Wilhelm Reich
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. — William Safire
I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped. — Kristen Stewart
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. — Voltaire
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. — George Washington
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the… — Ambrose Bierce
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is… — Albert Camus
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel
…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the… — Albert Camus
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black… — Scott Westerfeld
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only… — Thomas Szasz
Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. — William Shakespeare
Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but… — Neil Gaiman

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