Quotes About Pestilence

#1. Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

James A. Garfield

#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.

John F. Kennedy

#3. The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Will Rogers

#5. Somewhere in the city, Pestilence was raising an army for its fellow horseman, Death.

Steve Hockensmith

#6. Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes, plague, and pestilence? Had he not stood, like the Pompeian sentry, while the Citadels of the Plain fell to ruin about his ears?

Evelyn Waugh

#7. Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the pestilence of panic or fear.

Ryan Holiday

#8. Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

John Milton

#9. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.

Karen Maitland

#10. Justin Butterfield of Illinois, a Federalist-turned-Whig, said of the Mexican-American War, said, "I opposed one war and it ruined me. From now on I am for war, pestilence and famine.

Michael S. Green

#11. The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle against pestilence and suffocation.

Victor Hugo

#12. I hate it as one hates sin or pestilence or
the color work in a ten-cent magazine.

O. Henry

#13. The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it.

Johann Most

#14. Oh what foul traitor in your midst could have called such a pestilence down upon the very, er, Shakrathly presence of his own beloved Emperor! For shame!

Dave Stone

#15. Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#16. When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#17. To them I must have seemed quaint, but I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves. Unless there's blood on the floor, of course. War, pestilence, murder, any kind of ordeal or violence, that's what they respect. Blood means we were serious.

Margaret Atwood

#18. I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.

Nostradamus

#19. The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

Charles Dickens

#20. Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

Nichiren

#22. Pollution removed his helmet and shook out his long white hair. He had taken over when Pestilence, muttering about penicillin, had retired in 1936.

Terry Pratchett

#23. As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

John Lancaster Spalding

#24. Oh, good, Pestilence is free, said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm.

Laini Taylor

#25. Okay, boys." Pestilence's grating voice rang out. "Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started!

Larissa Ione

#26. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#27. The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

William Hazlitt

#28. RIGHT, he said, PESTILENCE, OPEN ANOTHER PACK OF CARDS. I'M GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS IF IT KILLS ME, FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING OF COURSE. Rincewind grabbed Twoflower and pulled

Terry Pratchett

#29. He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

#30. War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it.

George Monbiot

#31. It's time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

William H. Stewart

#32. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies Of Hereford

#33. The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

William E. Gladstone

#34. As has already been stated: some people's brains border their anal regions. Thus, their senses are dulled, and the psychopathological pestilence is such that the intrepid scholar-explorer inevitably butts up against a dead end.

Juan Filloy

#35. When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance.- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death

Robert Asprin

#36. Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Bertrand Russell

#37. For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper and from the deadly pestilence.

Peggy Joyce Ruth

#38. The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me
a small disk, 240,000 miles away ... Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Frank Borman

#39. A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of war, pestilence and famine.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#40. I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!

Robert Green Ingersoll

#41. The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. In

Albert Camus

#42. Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

Francis Quarles

#43. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#44. We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.

Joel Salatin

#45. If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

#46. Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?" Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers." You named your cats after the riders of the apocal
wait. Mr. Whiskers?" Well, there are only four horsemen.

Richelle Mead

#47. Have you any idea of what you've unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering ... what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#48. All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#49. The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.

Rush Limbaugh

#50. In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

Charles Dickens

#51. Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s Great Depression, ... war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#52. Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the lightning bold should in its flash kill his cow?

Benjamin Butler

#53. A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Wendell Berry

#54. Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened?
Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

Peter J. Carroll

#55. Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

Woody Allen

#56. A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.

Thomas Carlyle

#57. If the sky stands still, if the earth quakes, if there is famine, if there is pestilence, at once the cry is raised: Throw the Christians to the lions! So many to one?

Tertullian

#58. Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#59. From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Thomas Nashe

#60. He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.

Naomi Novik

#61. Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Richard Dawkins

#62. Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.

Billy Graham

#63. By George Eliot Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample on the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhalations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence.

George Eliot

#64. A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

Edward Gibbon

#65. Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

Rene Dubos

#66. There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.

Piers Morgan

#67. Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#68. They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine

Albert Camus

#69. Apart from religious ceremonies, triduums, novenas, gardening, harvesting, vintaging, whippings, slavery, incest, fires, hangings, invasion, sacking, rape and pestilence, we have had no experience. What can a poor nun know of the world?

Italo Calvino

#70. There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

Jeremy Bentham

#71. Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Mario Puzo

#72. In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

George Bernard Shaw

#73. Even though he grew up in churches, raised by church people, Waterhouse (as must be obvious by this point) never really understood their attitudes about sex. Why did they get so hung up on that one issue, when there were others like murder, war, poverty, and pestilence?

Neal Stephenson

#74. The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars.

Ardel Wray

#75. Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

George Eliot

#76. With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#77. Come to the bridal-chamber, Death!
Come to the mother's, when she feels,
For the first time, her first-born's breath!
Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke!

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#78. For nothing is more dangerous than to live where the public license of crime prevails; yea, there is no pestilence so destructive, as that corruption of morals, which is opposed neither by laws nor judgments, nor any other remedies.

John Calvin

#79. There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

Bertrand Russell

#80. A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

Ben Jonson

#81. But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.

Wendell Berry

#82. I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct
if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#83. The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over

David Eugene Edwards