Altruism Quote by Isabel Paterson

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

— Alan Chadwick

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

— Michael Pollan

How we love sequestering, where no pests are pestering.

— Lorenz Hart

I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.

— Vickie Winans

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

— Pope Pius IX

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible,…

— Albert Camus

Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash…

— Albert Camus

Those who always know what's best are a universal pest.

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

— Maria V. Snyder

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a…

— Don Marquis

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or…

— Charles Bukowski