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Blight Quotes

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

James Russell Lowell
Men, Knowing Who You Are, Blight
'The Present Crisis' (1845)

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

Carl Jung
Long, Blight, Antichrist
Carl Gustav Jung (1958). “Psychology and religion: West and East”

Love denied blights the soul we owe to God.

William Shakespeare
Love, Soul, Blight
"Fictional character: William Shakespeare". "Shakespeare in Love", 1998.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience

Nelson Mandela
Racism, Blight, Humans
Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.323, Pan Macmillan

It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Proportion, Blight, Centralization
"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

Thomas Love Peacock
Doe, Genius, Blight
"Nightmare Abbey".

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

Mary Ann Shaffer
Fairy, Blight, Christening
Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.108, Dial Press

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

Lord Byron
Demon, Blight, Exile
Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Kate Millett
Blight, Human Condition, Humans
Kate Millett (1975). “Flying”

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