Plague Quotes - Page 7

• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Technology, Men

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Frustration, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

  Larry Kramer

  Needs, Aids, Happened

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• 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.

  Larry Kramer

  Definitions, Modern, Aids

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

  Paul Berg

  Creating, Kind, Evolution

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• I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

  Danai Gurira

  Hate, Scared, Horror

  "Q&A: Danai Gurira, The Walking Dead's Newest Badass". Interview with T. J. Kosinski, www.esquire.com. October 12, 2012.

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• Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Blow, Reality, Wind

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• The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Men, Hands

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• We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer - and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

  Tom Van Vleck

  Agony, Water, Suffering

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• [Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

  Claudius

  World, Jew, Whole

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• This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

  John McCain

  Needs, World, Unions

  "Sen. McCain talks Syria, Iran and tensions with Pakistan; Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic institutions vs. Obama administration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2012.

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• You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

  Mark Strong

  Jobs, Past, These Days

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• 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.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Numbers, America

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Crooked Wood", p. 208), 1977.

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eye, Sacrifice, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Black, Brain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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• The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

  John the Apostle

  Angel, Fire, Names

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• When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

  Jenson Button

  Thinking, Pick Me Up, Insecurity

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• Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Shows, Statues

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• Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

  David Cameron

  Regulation, Phenomenon, Complexes

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

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• Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Nursing, Men

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Pain, Hero, Doubt

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• In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.

  Jack Van Impe

  Bombs, Neutrons, Jerusalem

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