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There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly unprepared.
Disease Carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease
A plague on both your houses.
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
It's worse than a disease. It's a poison.
So please try to keep in mind that, when I plague you, I do so because you're the only person I can plague.
Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.
12And this shall be e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.
MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.
[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.
It was a musty sweet smell. "Is this plague city?
Hunger is the most effective disease.
The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.
It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time.
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.
Despair often breeds disease.
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
In the early '70s, the nation was afflicted with incurable pattern viruses - small microbes that reproduced and multiplied from a single swatch left on a sofa, and soon covered an entire room.
So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient.
A plague on 3PO for action slow,/ A plague upon my quest that led us here,/ A plague on both our circuit boards, I say! [R2-D2}
Malady of mortality
It was ancient and had risen from the boiling earth. It had slept, falling dormant in the dust, rising in mist. Tuberculosis had flown in a dizzy rush to unite with warm life. It was in each new world, and every old world. First it loved animals, then it loved people too.
You are my sickness,
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
is, in truth, a variety of diseases
I Survived the Black Plague
To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen very quickly.
The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.
A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether.
We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety
Pittacus said, "Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only".
The burden of the incommunicable.
The gods have become our diseases.
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
No plague spreads quicker than panic, Stolicus wrote, nor is more deadly. The
In the 19th century, smallpox was widely considered a disease of filth, which meant that it was largely understood to be a disease of the poor. According to filth theory, any number of contagious diseases were caused by bad air that had been made foul by excrement or rot.
What kind of a disease is this that, like leprosy, is amputating our families, extremity by extremity, limb by limb? What kind of a disease is this that is taking away our words, cloaking us with silence, numbing us with fear? Eeh, Sister, you tell me.
What's worse than cancer? Leprosy.
Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city.
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Hunger (for things) is the supreme disease.
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
The Black Death announces itself by the appearance of foul, egg-sized swellings that erupt on the bodies of its victims, followed by spreading boils and hideous discolorations of the skin. So excruciating is the pain that death, when it comes, is a mercy.
-The Book of the Eternal Rose
There's a sickness in my soul,
and I don't know,
but I've been told it's incurable
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.
Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.
As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.
A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose.
Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad.
Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.
The most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.
Life is nothing but mutual infection.
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond the understanding and control of a helpless humanity.
In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones.
Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony.
Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.
It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.
There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and attacking anything that came into range. This was upsetting for everyone involved, except for the infected, who were past being upset about that sort of thing.
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.
Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.
A most malicious cough
I'm a disease. That's what I am to you.
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'
Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!
One day they will name a plague for you," he said.
"Hopefully a particularly nasty one," she answered. "A girl can dream.
Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.
Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.
Another plague year would reconcile all these differences; a close conversing with death, or with diseases that threaten death, would scum off the gall from our tempers, remove the animosities among us, and bring us to see with differing eyes than those which we looked on things with before.
Is this a Netherling flu?
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.
I suppose she's just dying of living
that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.
Ignorance is the worst plague of all, a form of blindness that destroys the hearts of the people who hide behind it.
Fashions are induced epidemics.
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
Misery is a communicable disease.