Pestilence quotes
24 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."
"In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
"The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous."
