Behinds Quote by Rajendra K. Pachauri

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

— William E. Gladstone

“The material world is itself a place always full of anxieties, and by encouraging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more…

— Anonymous

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which…

— Bertrand Russell

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with…

— George Monbiot

It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as…

— William H. Stewart

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning…

— Tertullian

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine…

— Martha Gellhorn

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the…

— Sean O'Casey

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen…

— Will Rogers

Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and…

— Clarence Darrow

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant…

— Terry Pratchett