Plague Quotes

276 Plague quotes by 229 unique authors

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. — Pope Benedict XVI
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! — George Canning
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with… — Albert Camus
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both… — Naomi Wallace
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an… — Igor Stravinsky
No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. — Albert Camus
So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. — Albert Camus
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
I could do without the Bubonic Plague. — Jeri Ryan
The population at large is neither 'ordinary' or 'normal'. They seem to be bound together by a collective ignorance of themselves and what they are.… — Dennis Nilsen
The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. — Suzanne Collins
I have a confession to make. Yesterday, I was responsible for the deaths of millions of Britons. What happened is that MI5 asked me to… — Mark Lawson
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. — Diane Watson
War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Male homosexuals have seduced and abused millions of underage boys. Their unclean sexual habits and ultra-promiscuous lifestyle have resulted in spreading the worst communicable plague… — David Duke
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water,… — Kofi Annan
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only… — Jonathan Swift
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. — Shelley Berman

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