Scourge Quotes - Page 5

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Peace, War, Men

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• The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

  George Monbiot

  War, People, Generations

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• And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Father, Sheep

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• Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized man.

  King Hussein I

  Block, War, Gun

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• Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Worry, Mankind, Destructive

  Dr. Maxwell Maltz (2008). “The Magic Power of Self Image Psychology”, p.212, Jaico Publishing House

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• Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

  Vito Fossella

  Elements, Lebanon, Cows

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• Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Abortion

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.

  David Boaz

  War, Men, Class

  David Boaz (2015). “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Iniquity

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Comets importing change of times and states,
  Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
  And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Sky, Crystals

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.928, Oxford University Press

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• The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

  Pope Francis

  Marijuana, Suffering And Death, Drug

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• Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

  Philip Berrigan

  Nuclear Disarmament, Use, Earth

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• We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Life, Prayer, Children

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.90, tredition

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• Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

  Floyd Patterson

  Boxing, Black, Clay

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• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  David Foreman

  Aids Epidemic, Epidemics, Population

  "Are There Just too Many People in the World?" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2008.

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• O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

  Madame de Stael

  Sweet, Memories, Joy

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Feminism, Lists, Problem

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Earth bears no balsams for mistakes;
  Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool
  That did his will: but thou, O Lord,
  Be merciful to me, a fool.

  Edward Rowland Sill

  Prayer, Mistake, Men

  Edward Rowland Sill, “The Fool's Prayer”

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• Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Vices, Virtue, Wells

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881). “Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.”

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• Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do is ban the Old Testament. There's nothing like it in the literary canon that exalts genocide, to that extent. And it's not a joke either. Like where I live, New England, the people who liberated it from the native scourge were religious fundamentalist lunatics, who came waving the holy book, declaring themselves to be the children of Israel who are killing the Amalekites, like God told them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Religious, Children

  Talk at the University of Houston, Texas, October 18, 2002.

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• y feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. 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 adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Loneliness

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