Battles Quote by Karen Maitland

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light,…

— Albert Einstein

“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

Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few…

— David Hume

“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

— Albert Camus

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

— Bill Gates

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

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and…

— Umberto Eco

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

— E. O. Wilson

There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with…

— Park Won-soon

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle