A Quote by Albert Camus

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
French - Philosopher
November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

Peter Stone

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Stephen L. Carter

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

Daniel Defoe

Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

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

Merrit Malloy

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Voltaire

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!

George Canning

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

William Shakespeare

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Michel de Montaigne

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there's almost no coping with it. That's why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.

Jack LaLanne

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.

Ludwig von Mises

All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have allthe plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.

Lord Chesterfield

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

Ezra Taft Benson

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Tenzin Palmo

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

Celia Thaxter

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