Blight Quotes - Page 3

• These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.

  James P. Cannon

  Country, Cities, Giving

  "What Socialist America Will Look Like". Lecture at the SWP’s Friday Night Forum in Los Angeles on January 23, 1953. The Militant, www.marxists.org. July 27, 1953.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So: if the chronic inflation undergone by Americans, and in almost every other country, is caused by the continuing creation of new money, and if in each country its governmental "Central Bank" (in the United States, the Federal Reserve) is the sole monopoly source and creator of all money, who then is responsible for the blight of inflation? Who except the very institution that is solely empowered to create money, that is, the Fed (and the Bank of England, and the Bank of Italy, and other central banks) itself?

  Murray Rothbard

  Country, England, United States

  "The Case against the Fed". Book by Murray Rothbard, 1994.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

  9 Copy quote

• The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

  A. B. Simpson

  Men, Hands, Fellow Man

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.46, Moody Publishers

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty! Tomas! And now me! What are the Irish among men? Are we lepers? Are we a blight? Will there ever be an end to our tears?

  Leon Uris

  Men, Names, Tears

  Leon Uris (1977). “Trinity”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Doe, Genius, Infancy

  "Nightmare Abbey".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Soul, Denied

  "Fictional character: William Shakespeare". "Shakespeare in Love", 1998.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

  Ellen Lupton

  Civilization, Humanity, Fonts

  54 Copy quote

• And what if thou, sweet May, hast known
  Mishap by worm and blight;
  If expectations newly blown
  Have perished in thy sight;
  If loves and joys, while up they sprung,
  Were caught as in a snare;
  Such is the lot of all the young,
  However bright and fair.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Sight, Expectations

  William Wordsworth (2009). “The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth Series”, p.599, Humanities-Ebooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

  Carl Jung

  Long, Antichrist, Expected

  Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• ‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Fairy, Christening, Happens

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.108, Dial Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Blood, Honor, Faces

  4 Copy quote

• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change There was a strange stillness The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of scores of bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

  Rachel Carson

  Morning, Spring, Heart

  6 Copy quote

• There is a tale...It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.

  Cameron Dokey

  Garden, Zucchini, Land

  13 Copy quote

• My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling...She's better than reality TV, Internet porn sites, and the trashloids all put together.' - Jim

  Katie MacAlister

  Reality, Two, Together

  7 Copy quote

• Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

  Michael Gove

  Children, School, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, War, Passion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is what is left to him," said Will. "Do you not recall what he says to Lucie? 'If it had been possible... that you could have returned the love of the man you see before yourself- flung away, wasted, drunken, poor creature of misure as you know him to be- he would have been conscious this day and hour, in spite of his happiness, that he would bring you misery, bring you to sorrow and repetance, blight you, disgrace you, pull you down with him

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Sorrow, Misery

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.

  David Duke

  Mean, Thinking, Race

  934 Copy quote

• Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Children, Lying, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.31, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.

  John Muir

  Men, Animal, Landscape

  8 Copy quote

• Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

  Roger Scruton

  Morning, Inspiration, Exercise

  16 Copy quote

• I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.

  Joni Mitchell

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

  10 Copy quote