Condemning Quote by Martin Luther

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

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

— Daniel Defoe

“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

“In the countryside, an outbreak of plague usually lasted about six months and then faded away. In cities and other places where people lived…

— Phyllis Goldstein

Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or…

— Anne Applebaum

“I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it.…

— Albert Camus

We are a plague on the Earth.

— David Attenborough

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The good, the bad, the virgin, and the harlot: no one is spared, all go rose-spattered with plague lesions. I see no sense, no…

— Ned Hayes