Do not be caught
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
Plague
The Bible says, Be
The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It’s much better to fight your way through as soon as … Read more
Venice is ever the
Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are … Read more
The ideal of self-advancement
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence. Eric Hoffer
The plague of gold
The plague of gold strikes far and near. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Book of Revelation
The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions – dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war. Elaine Pagels
To save the theatre,
To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls … Read more
To save the Theatre,
To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague … they make art impossible. Eleanora Duse
But we remember that
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants’ War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status. Edward Jenks
I understand and sympathize
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague … Read more