Quotes about Plague

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague") Votes: 4

I could do without the Bubonic Plague. Votes: 3

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. Votes: 3

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius. Votes: 3

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. Votes: 3

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. Votes: 3

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. Votes: 3

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible. Votes: 3

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. Votes: 3

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food". Votes: 3

How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my two children, now toddlers, when they are old enough to understand. It's a movie that I cannot forget. Votes: 3

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. Votes: 3

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase. Votes: 3

But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status. Votes: 3

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. Votes: 2

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all. Votes: 2

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Votes: 2

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Votes: 2

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it. Votes: 2

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. Votes: 2

Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart. Votes: 2

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care. Votes: 2

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. Votes: 2

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague. Votes: 2

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves. Votes: 2

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. Votes: 2

We are a plague on the Earth. Votes: 1

Adolescence is a plague on the senses. Votes: 1

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. Votes: 1

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. Votes: 1

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. Votes: 1

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Votes: 1

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. Votes: 1

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. Votes: 1

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. Votes: 1

My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. Votes: 1

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge. Votes: 1

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet. Votes: 1

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. Votes: 1

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event. Votes: 1

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. Votes: 1

It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. Votes: 1

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. Votes: 1

Australia has suffered a decade of drought, epic floods, a Category 5 cyclone, and a plague of locusts. But just because Aussies have the biggest carbon footprint in the world, it doesn't mean they're stupid. Votes: 1

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack. Votes: 1

If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague. Votes: 1

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. Votes: 1

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring. Votes: 1

What a plague love is! Votes: 0

Overcriminalization has become a national plague. Votes: 0

A plague on both your houses. Votes: 0

Shun artificial rocks like the plague. Votes: 0

Gossiping is the plague of little towns. Votes: 0

Idleness is the great plague of India. Votes: 0

The plague of government is senile delinquency. Votes: 0

Please your eye and plague your heart. Votes: 0

The plague of gold strikes far and near. Votes: 0

False fears are a plague, a modern plague! Votes: 0

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague. Votes: 0

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears. Votes: 0

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. Votes: 0

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! Votes: 0

Words were her plague and words were her redemption. Votes: 0

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. Votes: 0

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Votes: 0

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague. Votes: 0

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague. Votes: 0

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge. Votes: 0

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence. Votes: 0

It was a musty sweet smell. "Is this plague city? Votes: 0

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen. Votes: 0

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world. Votes: 0

Zombies weren't the true plague of the world, laziness was. Votes: 0

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease. Votes: 0

He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague. Votes: 0

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. Votes: 0

There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted. Votes: 0

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. Votes: 0

Self-pity NEVER leads to happiness. Avoid it like it's a zombie plague. Votes: 0

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something. Votes: 0

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one. Votes: 0

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. Votes: 0

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret. Votes: 0

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague. Votes: 0

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another. Votes: 0

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors. Votes: 0

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. Votes: 0

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. Votes: 0

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Votes: 0

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse? Votes: 0

Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city. Votes: 0

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. Votes: 0

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. Votes: 0

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder. Votes: 0

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Votes: 0

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious. Votes: 0

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. Votes: 0

Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? Votes: 0

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. Votes: 0

What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch. Votes: 0

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. Votes: 0

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. Votes: 0

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past Votes: 0

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world. Votes: 0

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop. Votes: 0

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. Votes: 0

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. Votes: 0

War.Such a little word, such a depth of agony. Blood, death, conquest, starvation, plague, and horror. Votes: 0

Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle." Votes: 0

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. Votes: 0

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. Votes: 0

The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real Votes: 0

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. Votes: 0

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. Votes: 0

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. Votes: 0

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. Votes: 0

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers. Votes: 0

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.' Votes: 0

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. Votes: 0

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague. Votes: 0

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.] Votes: 0

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty Votes: 0

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. Votes: 0

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague. Votes: 0

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him. Votes: 0

He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted. Votes: 0

Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight. Votes: 0

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended. Votes: 0

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death. Votes: 0

There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. Votes: 0

Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath! Votes: 0

A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. Votes: 0

While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. Votes: 0

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness. Votes: 0

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. Votes: 0

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. Votes: 0

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease. Votes: 0

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur. Votes: 0

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Votes: 0

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. Votes: 0

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you. Votes: 0

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. Votes: 0

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology. Votes: 0

Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only". Votes: 0

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence, which is a big contributor to a lot of the problems that we're seeing today. Votes: 0

For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. Votes: 0

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. Votes: 0

The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast! Votes: 0

We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children. Votes: 0

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague. Votes: 0

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick. Votes: 0

I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak. Votes: 0

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague. Votes: 0

Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. Votes: 0

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy. Votes: 0

Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion. Votes: 0

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses. Votes: 0

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Votes: 0

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city. Votes: 0

The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts...nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win. Votes: 0

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death! Votes: 0

I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous. Votes: 0

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience. Votes: 0

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning. Votes: 0

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions. Votes: 0

The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict. Votes: 0

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague. Votes: 0

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one. Votes: 0

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, one of the very worst ever to ravage the earth. Votes: 0

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open. Votes: 0

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it. Votes: 0

I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever. Votes: 0

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams. Votes: 0

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under. Votes: 0

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. Votes: 0

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread. Votes: 0

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one. Votes: 0

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society. Votes: 0

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. Votes: 0

If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague... It's just pointless and deadly. Votes: 0

I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing. Votes: 0

On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague. Votes: 0

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying. Votes: 0

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song? Votes: 0

Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business. Votes: 0

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property. Votes: 0

Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. Votes: 0

Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out? Votes: 0

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns. Votes: 0

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. Votes: 0

The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. Votes: 0