Blight Quotes - Page 4

• Racism is a blight on the human conscience

  Nelson Mandela

  Racism, Humans, Conscience

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

  George Muller

  Children, Blessing, Years

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• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sight, Cities, Smell

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Country, School, Garden

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• A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Horse, Military

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

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