Bacteria Quote by Hans Zinsser

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

— Etty Hillesum

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. We make mental provisions…

— Etty Hillesum

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

— Robert Frost

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

— Pope Pius IX

“Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the…

— Hans Zinsser

“From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We've been scared from using antibiotics and antivirals out of some kind of weird sense of communal responsibility to keep bugs naive to our…

— Scott Gottlieb

“Look at them, the bugs. Humans have used everything in their power to extinguish them: every kind of poison, aerial sprays, introducing and cultivating…

— Liu Cixin

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern…

— Rachel Carson

It may not be irrelevant to note that even very modest forms of life, like earthworms, dung beetles and fiddler crabs, have no trouble…

— Edward Goldsmith

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

— Veronica Roth

Nature turns all malfaisance to good.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson