Plague Quotes - Page 7

• We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

  Kofi Annan

  Drinking, Water, Battle

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Apr 07, 2017

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• The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

  Simon Bolivar

  Names, America, Liberty

  Simon Bolivar's statement (1829) as quoted in John Gerassi "The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans", 1963.

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• Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.

  Obafemi Awolowo

  Hate, Long, Soul

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Earthquakes, Prosperity

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• We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?

  Norman Mailer

  Art, Civilization, Effort

  "Cannibals and Christians". Book by Norman Mailer, 1966.

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• What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

  Michael Gilbert

  People

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• So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Winning, Men

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

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• I'm perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don't act like you've been hit by the plague when you're alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it's not a bad day.

  Taylor Swift

  Friday, Song, Lonely

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• Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

  Max Cannon

  Events, Culture, Yeah

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• HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Heart, Cat, Israel

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

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• What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Fishing, Tourists, Insects

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• Please your eye and plague your heart.

  William Cobbett

  Heart, Eye, Please

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.156

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• When the Spirit came to Moses, the plagues came upon Egypt, and he had power to destroy men's lives; when the Spirit came upon Elijah, fire came down from heaven; when the Spirit came upon Gideon, no man could stand before him; and when it came upon Joshua, he moved around the city of Jericho and the whole city fell into his hands; but when the Spirit came upon the Son of Man, He gave His life; He healed the broken-hearted.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Son, Men, Fire

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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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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Punishment

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague...Let every head of every household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing, and, where possible, fuel also, for at least a year ahead...Let every head of household aim to own his own home, free from mortgage. Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues-honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Religious, Honesty, Home

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• The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real

  Peter Milligan

  Real, Madness, Scream

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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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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of the soul that plague many people today. For those who want to address more than just the symptoms of depression, Ed's counsel is invaluable.

  Bob Lepine

  Issues, People, Understanding

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• God extends his grace to his people (and mankind in general) when he destroys the wicked, because in destroying the wicked, he is averting their evil works that so plague God's children and mankind in general. When he maims and kills cultists and theological liberals, he prevents the spread of heretical doctrine that damns souls...God's judgment - not his favor - leads the world to righteousness. We should petition God's judgment on the wicked because judgment is a form of grace.

  Andrew Sandlin

  Religious, Children, People

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• The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast!

  Donald Trump

  Country, Ebola, Borders

  'This Week' with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 3, 2014.

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• The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Bears, Treats, Bubonic Plague

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• Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2001). “Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 5 of 6”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

  Sigrid Undset

  Today, Dogma, Should

  Deal Wyatt Hudson, Sigrid Undset (1993). “Sigrid Undset on saints and sinners: new translations and studies : papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Wethersfield Institute, New York City, April 24, 1993”, Ignatius Pr

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