Plague Quotes

276 Plague quotes by 229 unique authors

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
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

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