The Plague Quotes

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

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.

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

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

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

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

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

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

There is a great fear that plagues only romantics and children... it is that they might be alright alone.

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.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

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.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

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.

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.

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

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

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.

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.

Idleness is the great plague of India.

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.

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

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

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

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.

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