100+ Scourge Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Radio address on July 28, 1942. "Bishop George Bell: House of Lords Speeches and Correspondence with Rudolf Hess". Book edited by Peter K. Raina, api.parliament.uk. 2009.

topic: War, Order, Cities, Bombing, Scourge

Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

- Peter Eigen

source: "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

topic: Real, Two, Differences, Causes Of Poverty, Scourge

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Peace, War, Passing Away, Inaugural Address, American Civil War

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

topic: World, Agents, Destruction, Landmines, Scourge

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!

- Thomas Gray

topic: Daughter, Power, Iron, Torts, Scourge

A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Children, Husband, Women, Stockings, Femme

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Class, Ennui, Constant, Lower Class, Scourge

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

- Horace

topic: Punishment, Terrible, Pursue, Scourge

A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

- Harris L Coulter

topic: Drinking, Autism, Water, Hyperactivity, Learning Disability

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.

- Peter Earle

topic: Country, Years, Water, Scourge

I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.

- Peter Damian

source: Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.45, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Attachment, Flesh, Spirit, Scourge

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

- Nelson Mandela

source: Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Ignorance, Rights, Relieved, Great Tragedy

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Christian, Men, Rose, Vipers, Catholic Faith

Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Compassion, People, Together, Scourge, Hiv Aids

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

- Rebecca Solnit

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Earth, Corporations, Argument, Scourge

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is a greater moral imperative now than ever before, because for the first time humanity has the instruments at hand to defeat this cruel enemy at a very reasonable cost. We have the ability to provide food for all within the next three decades.

- George McGovern

topic: Hands, Years, Humanity, Imperatives, Scourge

Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

topic: Pride, Two, Soul, Undecided, Scourge

No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

- Joseph Hall

topic: Christian, Mean, Men, Whips, Chastisement

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Wisdom, Mean, Generations, Scourge

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul, Sacrifice To God, Intercession

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

- Luis Walter Alvarez

topic: War, Believe, Optimistic, Large Scale, Scourge

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

- Eliot Engel

topic: Holocaust, World, Genocide, Anti Semitism, Scourge

Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

- Ben Jonson

source: 1600 Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

topic: Time, Eye, Mirrors, Scourge

The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!

- Brian Jacques

source: Brian Jacques (1990). “Redwall”

topic: Eye, Light, Snow, Shrews, Methuselah

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

- Paullina Simons

topic: Mother, Men, Russia, Used To Love, Scourge

I am a Stormdancer! Mere metal is nothing compared with the power of a storm." Kade made his voice boom and spread his arms wide. His eyes sparked with humor. "I. Am. Invincible." "Until a happy wind blows," I said. "Curse those sunny days." "The bane of your existence." "The scourge of society." "The downfall of decency." "And boring, too. Nothing like a good gale to put a spring in your step." Kade grinned.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Spring, Eye, Blow, Spring In Your Step, Scourge

For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Fall, Reading, Writing, Quills, Scourge

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.58, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Vices, Ruins, Strange, Scourge

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

- Manmohan Singh

topic: Zero, Law, Tolerance, Zero Tolerance, International Law

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Blessing, Men, Helping, Scourge

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

- Barack Obama

topic: Determination, Moving, Writing, Scourge

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon