Plague Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Theatre, Actors

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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 most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Important, Elements, Disease

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Worst, Torment

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.817, Bible Study Steps

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• I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.

  Bill Burr

  Needs, Flu, Want

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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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• Most of the problems that plague our society - addiction, overeating, crime, domestic violence, prejudice, debt, unwanted pregnancy, educational failure, underperformance at school and work, lack of savings, failure to exercise - are in some degree a failure of self-control.

  Roy Baumeister

  Educational, Pregnancy, School

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• While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.

  Robert Genn

  Community, Moxie, May

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• Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

  St. Jerome

  Wealth, Poor, Wealthy

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• Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Travel, Destiny

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Great West Books

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• Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

  Rachel Carson

  Our World, Yesterday, Drug

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.

  Romain Rolland

  War, Hallucinations, Injustice

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

  Gary Bauer

  Christian, Religious, Culture

  Gary Bauer (1992). “Our Journey Home: What Parents Are Doing to Preserve Family Values”, W Publishing Group

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• On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague.

  Klaus Kinski

  Fighting, Wish, Directors

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• I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Army, Animal

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• All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Age, Answers

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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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• 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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• 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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• Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
  loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
  the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
  techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

  Alvin Toffler

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

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• I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Break Up, One Day, Way

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

  B. C. Forbes

  Hands, Europe, Feet

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• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

  William Shakespeare

  Calumny Is, Ice, Snow

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.920

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• If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

  Joss Whedon

  Believe, Men, Profound

  "Watch Joss Whedon Make the Perfect Speech About the Word Feminist" by Kate Dries, jezebel.com. Novemebr 7, 2013.

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