Quote by Voltaire

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

— Voltaire

“Negativity. Mankind's most widespread plague.”

— Sheila Parker

“I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so,…

— George Eliot

“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one must refuse…

— Albert Camus

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”

— Paul Levy

“The good news is that we can discover that it's not other people's shit causing the turmoil in the world, it's our own shit…

— Jerry Jampolsky

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”

— Bret Easton Ellis

“Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars…

— Margaret Atwood

“The world was a dangerous place, but I was worse.”

— Pepper Winters

“Disasters are an opportunity for the worst of humanity. And the best.”

— A.G. Riddle

“But disasters are made of paper. You make a decision or two, then walk in to them like you would a harmless corner store,…

— David Cain

“A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.”

— René Dubos