Plague Quotes - page 2

The price of freedom-of individuality-is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague. (Greg Bear)
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. View quote
Henry Fielding
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits. View quote
Samuel Beckett
There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
From winter, plague, & pestilence, good Lord, deliver us. View quote
Thomas Nashe
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. View quote
Uri Geller
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. View quote
William Shakespeare
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. (Igor Stravinsky)
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. View quote
Simón Bolívar
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. View quote
Edward Abbey
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious. View quote
Lauren Willig
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. View quote
John McWhorter
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. View quote
Diane Watson
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. View quote
Larry Kramer
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. (Max Cannon)
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. View quote
Rick Pitino
The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague. View quote
Tony Kornheiser
Be united, persevere, and achieve self-Government, so that the millions now perishing by poverty, famine, and plague may be saved, and India may once more occupy her proud position of yore among the greatest and civilized nations of the world. View quote
Dadabhai Naoroji
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. View quote
Camille Claudel