Plague Quotes - Page 11

• Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Destroying, Resources, Left Alone

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.84, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• There is a world of science necessary in choosing books. I have known some people in great sorrow fly to a novel, or the last light book in fashion. One might as well take a rose-draught for the plague! Light reading does not do when the heart is really heavy. I am told that Goethe, when he lost his son, took to study a science that was new to him. Ah! Goethe was a physician who knew what he was about.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mother, Blow, Light

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• There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.

  Steve Allen

  Jealous, Fire, People

  Steve Allen (1990). “Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality”, Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books

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• Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to pieces because of that plague. Those who practice homosexuality deprive Germany of the children they owe her.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Children, Fall, Men

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• There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Opinion, Knows

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

  Mark Twain

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Years

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.229, U of Nebraska Press

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• According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

  Heather Brewer

  Dad, Epidemics, Black

  Heather Brewer (2011). “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites: Eighth Grade Bites”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate the whole planet. I’ve heard the moon is kind of nice this time of year.” – Sundown “Focus your ADD, Jess.” – Ren “I gotcha, brother. What you’re forecasting is six more plagues coming out of the northwest at maximum velocity with a mild chance of survival. Followed by the world getting swallowed whole in a vat of evil.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Nice, Moon

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• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Taught, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. All my works in pastels are the products of obsessional neurosis and are therefore inextricably connected to my disease. I create pieces even when I don’t see hallucinations, though.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Sculpture, Pieces

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• And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.

  Harry J. Holzer

  Educational, Gaps, Minorities

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• When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Population, Three, World

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 5, as translated by Ninian Hill Thomson, 1517.

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• The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
  Make instruments to plague us.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Full Circle, Vices

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. [172]

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• I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Evil, Ants

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• If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.

  Mike Huckabee

  Rights, Government, Civilization

  "Huckabee Denies He Ever Called For Quarantining AIDS Patients, Contradicts His Own Comments". The Associated Press Interview, thinkprogress.org. 1992.

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• The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Democracy, Culture, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Men, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.360, Stanford University Press

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• Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

  Myriam Gurba

  Joy, Eating Disorder, Conflict

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• Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Decision, Doubt, Suffering

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• He, that holds fast the golden mean,
  And lives contentedly between
  The little and the great,
  Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
  Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
  Imbitt'ring all his state.

  Horace

  Mean, Men, Doors

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

  Bill Vaughan

  War, Aftermath, Ancient

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• Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Vices, Viruses

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• Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.

  Charles Stross

  Mean, Use, Way

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• For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.

  Daniel Taylor

  Religious, Years, Two

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