Scourges Quotes

15 quotes by 14 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
• We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our… — Barack Obama
• The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox… — Adolf Hitler
• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. — Cardinal Richelieu
• Military men are the scourges of the world. — Guy de Maupassant
• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria. — Victor Davis Hanson
• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton
• You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives… — Heinrich Heine
• If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on… — Charles Dudley Warner
• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
• Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their… — Peter Eigen
• 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
• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us… — Michel de Montaigne
• Internet trolls have swarming tendencies, they descend in clouds like rabbles of biting gnats or scourges of bloodthirsty mosquitoes attacking fragile foals. — Steve Fowler

Who Wrote These Scourges Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Scourges Quotes as follows:

• 1 Scourges Quote by Luis Walter Alvarez
• 1 Scourges Quote by Barack Obama
• 1 Scourges Quote by Adolf Hitler
• 1 Scourges Quote by Cardinal Richelieu
• 1 Scourges Quote by Guy de Maupassant
• 1 Scourges Quote by Victor Davis Hanson
• 1 Scourges Quote by Murray Kempton
• 1 Scourges Quote by Heinrich Heine
• 1 Scourges Quote by Charles Dudley Warner
• 1 Scourges Quote by Pope Benedict XIV
• 1 Scourges Quote by Peter Eigen
• 1 Scourges Quote by Rachel Carson
• 1 Scourges Quote by Michel de Montaigne
• 1 Scourges Quote by Steve Fowler