Collapse Quote by Douglas Rushkoff

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The…

— Nancy Farmer

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95…

— Margaret Atwood

“Before answering this question, we need to say a few more words about famine, plague and war. The claim that we are bringing them…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.”

— Albert Camus

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

— Albert Camus

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

— Hendrik Poinar

“The first plague-spot is the accumulation of wealth in few hands, and the selfish withdrawal of its possessors from the life of the community.…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.”

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“No comparable mortality had been experienced since the bubonic plague nearly five hundred years before, and modern medical science stood impotent before the pestilence.”

— Joseph E. Persico

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic…

— Hans Zinsser

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught…

— Mike Wallace