7 Quotes About The-plague

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

This figure, which gave a clear meaning to the daily spectacle that everyone in town had in front of their eyes, disconcerted them even more. Up to then people had merely complaine about a rather disgusting accident. Now they saw that there was something threatening in this phenomenon, the extent and origin of which was not yet clear to them.

Hans clacked his side-lips. "Do you have the sentence in your head that tomorrow's procession will halt this pest of yours, that it will bar the small-lives from the High Woods?""If it is as you say, no. No more than prayer can stay a charging horse. But that is not why we pray. God is no cheap juggler as to play for a pfennig.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Rats died in the street; men in their homes. And newspapers are concerned only with the street.

... though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn'tprevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way...

Admittedly the number of dead from one day to the next was not rising. But it seemed that the plague had settled comfortably into its peak and was carrying out its daily murders with the precision and regularity of a good civil servant.