Plague Quotes

• Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  William Safire

  Lasts, Cliche, Superlatives

  William Safire (1991). “Fumblerules: a lighthearted guide to grammar and good usage”, Laurel

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• But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Doe

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• It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.

  David Attenborough

  Home, Years, Space

  "Humans are plague on Earth". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2013.

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• What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Evil, World

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

  Albert Camus

  Men, Two, Ministry

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

  Jennifer Stone

  Technology, Mind, Suffering

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• It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

  Albert Camus

  Silence, Calamity, Hardened

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Military, War, Mankind

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• There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.

  Merrit Malloy

  Children, Might, Alright

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• Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

  Henry Fielding

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

  Martin Luther

  War, Humanity, States

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.332

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• The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Boredom, Existential

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Interesting, Revolution, Heal

  Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House

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• Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Black, Victim, Century

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.69, Random House

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• I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious".

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• …there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Fighting, Common Decency

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Powerful, Character, Reality

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more 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

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

  Samuel Pepys

  Fashion, Cutting, People

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• No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Emotion, Individual

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

  Albert Camus

  Sometimes, Humans, Human Love

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Sorrow, Purpose

  Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

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• There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Despise, Admire

  "The Plague".

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• Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness.

  Albert Camus

  Country, Men, Thinking

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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