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Quotes About Plague

Zaman?nda di?er salg?nlar?n aras?nda, bugünkü terimiyle tahminen benzer veya ayn? olan "?arbon" hastal??? da vard?. ?nsanlarla birlikte çiftlik hayvanlar? ve atlar? da vuran ?arbon, baz? yazarlara göre MS 80'lerde Hunlar? da vurdu; Bat? seferlerinde 30 bin Hun, 40 bin at ve 100 bin büyükba? hayvan bundan etkilendi.
~ Hans Zinsser
6. Yüzy?l, tarihte e?ine az rastlan?r bir felaket dönemiydi. 513 Y?l?nda Vezüv de dahil volkan patlamalar?; 526 y?l?nda 200 binden fazla insan öldüren Antakya depremi, Konstantinopol depremi ve di?erleri; k?tl?klar ve bunu takip eden vebalar; Asya, Orta Do?u ve Avrupa'ya 60 y?ldan uzun bir süre korku ve y?k?m getirdi.
~ Hans Zinsser
Salg?n Bizans'? 4 ay etkiledi. Günde 5-10 bin ölü vard?: "Sonunda mezar kaz?c? bulunamay?nca, kalelerdeki kulelerin çat?lar? ç?kar?ld?, cesetler koyulup çat? tekrar kapat?ld?." Cenazeler gemilere koyulup denize terk ediliyordu. "Salg?n bittikten sonra ahlâks?zl?k ve sapk?nl?k o kadar artt? ki, salg?n geriye sadece günahkârlar? b?rakt? sanard?n?z.
~ Hans Zinsser
We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. We got more people who are living longer. Less people have to be born, that's the answer. We got death control—we got to match it with birth control.
~ Harry Harrison
The skills needed to describe and recognize perturbations in the Homo sapiens microecology are disappearing with the passing of the generations, leaving humanity, lulled into a complacency born of proud discoveries and medical triumphs, unprepared for the coming plague. 1 Machupo BOLIVIAN HEMORRHAGIC FEVER Any attempt to shape the world and modify human personality in order to create a self-chosen pattern of life involves many unknown consequences.
~ Laurie Garrett
lulled into a complacency born of proud discoveries and medical triumphs, unprepared for the coming plague.
~ Laurie Garrett
DISEASES HAVE A history of stirring up conspiracies. Jews were held responsible for the Black Plague in the fourteenth century, and they were massacred in hundreds of European cities, including two thousand Jews burned alive in Strasbourg, France, on Valentine's Day, 1349.
~ Lawrence Wright
I thank you again and again for the hounour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as an rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.
~ Jane Austen
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
~ Naveen Jain
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
~ Bradley Cooper
We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.
~ Timothy Egan
despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day
~ Tom Brokaw
If there were more men like you, Mr. Wooster, London would be a better place. This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she always having rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague's wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty—quaranta in Italian—served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
~ Dan Brown
AIDS II was a human plague disease back long before the Hegira," said Johnny. "It disabled the immune system. This Ã¢â'¬Â¦ virus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ works the same with an AI.
~ Dan Simmons
Men did then no more die by tale and by number. They might put out a weekly bill, and call them seven or eight thousand, or what they pleased; 'tis certain they died by heaps, and were buried by heaps, that is to say, without account.
~ Daniel Defoe
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.
~ Daniel Defoe
It is incredible, if their account is to be depended upon, what a prodigious number of those creatures were destroyed. I think they talked of forty thousand dogs and five times as many cats; few houses being without a cat, some having several, sometimes five or six in a house.
~ Daniel Defoe
This is one of the reasons why I believed then, and do believe still, that the shutting up houses thus by force, and restraining, or rather imprisoning, people in their own houses, as I said above, was of little or no service in the whole. Nay, I am of opinion it was rather hurtful, having forced those desperate people to wander abroad with the plague upon them, who would otherwise have died quietly in their beds.
~ Daniel Defoe
Amulets,39 and I know not what Preparations, to fortify the Body with them against the Plague; as if the Plague was not the Hand of God
~ Daniel Defoe
And this is the reason why it is impossible in a visitation to prevent the spreading of the plague by the utmost human vigilance: viz., that it is impossible to know the infected people from the sound, or that the infected people should perfectly know themselves.
~ Daniel Defoe
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.
~ Richard Conniff
The following biological toxins are known by the security services to have been weaponised:   Smallpox Anthrax Plague Pneumonic Tularemia Viral Equine Encephalitis Botulinum Ricin T-2 Mycatoxin   It is not known how many terrorist organisations are in possession of these weapons.
~ Chris Ryan
If only inflicted pain could be as contagious As a plague, you might use it more sparingly.
~ Christopher Fry