Pestilence quotes
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The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.
-- Albert Camus -
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes -
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.
-- Kenneth S. Deffeyes -
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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
-- Mario Puzo -
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind
-- Rajendra K. Pachauri -
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
-- Rene Dubos -
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation—without the pestilence of panic or fear.
-- Ryan Holiday -
From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!
-- Thomas Nashe -
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
-- Wendell Berry -
The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.
-- Ardel Wray
