Scourge Quotes

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

What reporters may increasingly see as a necessity, readers see as a scourge.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

There is now a scourge that is called Twitter

I am the Scourge of God.

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The Drug War is probably the worst scourge that has ever been visited upon this country.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

What Westerners would call corruption is not a scourge of the system but the basic principle of its normal functioning. Corruption in Russia is a form of transactional grease in the absence of any generally accepted and legally codified alternative.

I personally don't like guns at all, so pointing a gun at someone or having a gun pointed at me makes me feel very unbecoming. I think they're a scourge.

Baneful indeed is the scourge of war.

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.

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

The most high over all the earth gave kings at first, to the Jews (as he sends war) in anger, and as a judgment, and it may be affirmed, that upon the whole, they have been a scourge to the inhabitants of the earth ever since

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.