Scourge Quotes

82 quotes by 75 authors

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer… — John Bunyan
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour… — Joseph Hall
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is… — George McGovern
The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's… — Peter Forsyth
Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department… — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero… — Manmohan Singh
Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of… — Vito Fossella
Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden… — King Hussein I
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a… — John the Apostle
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been… — George Monbiot
There is now a scourge that is called Twitter — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my… — Martin Luther
Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the… — Noam Chomsky
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing. — Floyd Patterson

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