Quotes by Pestilence The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous. Albert Camus pestilence truth-is duration The horseman on the pale horse is Pestilence. He follows the wars. Ardel Wray pestilence horse war 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 pestilence war life 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 pestilence disease secret A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. Edward Gibbon pestilence loss war The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. H. L. Mencken pestilence banking grief 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 pestilence taste principles There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. Jeremy Bentham pestilence atheism independent 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 four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse pestilence war 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 pestilence war years Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. Mario Puzo pestilence madness war Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. Percy Bysshe Shelley pestilence power 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 pestilence genius men Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind Rajendra K. Pachauri pestilence climate war Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself. Rene Dubos pestilence civilization culture Science has eradicated 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 pestilence wages done 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 pestilence atheism imagine 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 pestilence discipline perception 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 pestilence atmosphere lying From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us! Thomas Nashe pestilence lord winter 12»