Plague Quotes - Page 16

• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

  Bradley Cooper

  Catholic, Guilt, Favors

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• The impious man, who sells his country's freedom
  Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.
  His are her slaughters, her oppressions his;
  Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him,
  And blast the venal wretch.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Men, Guilt

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• The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

  Peter Breggin

  History, Miracle, Drug

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• Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Conflict

  Stephen L. Carter (2012). “The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln”, p.45, Vintage

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• Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.

  Carl Froch

  Fighting, Needs, Mules

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• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

  Diane Ackerman

  War, Ice, Age

  Diane Ackerman (2014). “The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us”, p.136, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

  Vincent Klyn

  World, Lasts, Misery

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• God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

  Peter Straub

  Views, Evil, Fiction

  Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.249, Penguin

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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Men, Generous Man

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• It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

  Celia Thaxter

  Animal, Shells, Slime

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.7, Applewood Books

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• I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

  George Colman the Elder

  Secret, Pleasure, Vow

  David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press

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• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Mom, Daughter, Cost

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• From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

  Thomas Nashe

  Winter, Pestilence, Lord

  Songs from 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (performed c.1592, published 1600)

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• Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink.

  Lewis Browne

  Christian, War, Boys

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• Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

  Asha-Rose Migiro

  Commitment, Domestic Violence, Movement

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• Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Long, People

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• We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

  Herb Kohl

  Fighting, Needs, Way

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• The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

  Greg Bear

  Philosophy, Organization, Political

  Greg Bear (2016). “Far Thoughts and Pale Gods”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.

  Richard Bausch

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Heart, Cities

  Speech given to citizens in Cincinnati Ohio, Circa 1970.

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, Money, War

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