Best Bubonic Plague Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's nothing holy about suffering. The stories of the martyrs illustrate their faith because in spite of what they endured they did not suffer. A saint always dies smiling.”

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Book:Laid Waste

Source: Laid Waste

“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.”

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Book:The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

Source: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

“Agnes! Do you hear me? I was wrong. The world isn't ending. There are things that matter. We matter.”

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Book:Laid Waste

Source: Laid Waste

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

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Author:Giovanni Trapattoni

“Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!”

Source: God, How Can I Live?

“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.”

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Book:The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

Source: The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

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

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Author:Sue Thoele

“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.”

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Author:Wilhelm Reich

“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.”

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Book:Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood

Source: Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood

“My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.”

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Author:George Washington

“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.”

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Author:Barbara Amiel

“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.”

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Author:Russell Crowe

“The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.”

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Author:Tony Kornheiser

“I could do without the Bubonic Plague.”

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Author:Jeri Ryan

“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.”

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Author:Wilfred Trotter