Scourge Quotes

• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  

  David L. Katz
  • People
  • War
  • Humanity

• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

  

  Murray Kempton
  • Persons
  • Martyr
  • Scourge

• Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Necessity
  • Scourge
  • Lower Classes

• There is now a scourge that is called Twitter.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Twitter
  • Scourge