Citas Blight

• Triste, tristemente, salió el sol; salió sobre ninguna visión más triste que la del hombre de buenas capacidades y buenas emociones, incapaz de su ejercicio dirigido, incapaz de su propia ayuda y de su propia felicidad, consciente de la plaga que pesaba sobre él, y resignándose a dejar que le carcomiera.

  Charles Dickens

  Exercise, Men, Sight

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.87, Prestwick House Inc

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• Los humanos hemos crecido como un cáncer. Somos la mayor plaga sobre la faz de la tierra.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Cancer, Earth, Faces

  Washingtonian magazine, February 1, 1990.

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• En la actualidad, Estados Unidos se encuentra en la cima de la riqueza y el poder, pero vivimos en un país en el que la belleza desaparece, la fealdad aumenta, los espacios abiertos disminuyen y el medio ambiente se deteriora cada día por la contaminación, el ruido y el deterioro.

  Stewart Udall

  Naturaleza, Tierra, América

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). "La crisis silenciosa"

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• All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,--it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, Spring, Rain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Tongue

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• Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Tree, Sorrow

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.830, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

  Isak Dinesen

  Believe, Evil, Ants

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• There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.

  Henry Fairlie

  America, Television, Praise

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• Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

  John Millington Synge

  Sister, Giving, Lord

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.446, Wordsworth Editions

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• We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Children, Race, Circles

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• Hay una especie de celos que necesitan muy poco fuego; apenas son una pasión, sino una plaga engendrada en el nublado y húmedo abatimiento del egoísmo inquieto.

  George Eliot

  Celos, pasión, fuego

  George Eliot (1994). "Middlemarch", p.175, Ediciones Wordsworth

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• If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

  Vivian Campbell

  Dark, Rocks, Justice

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• Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

  Robert Graves

  Hate, Fighting, Men

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). "Poemas completos", Carcanet Pr

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• Sobre toda la Tierra -este globo infinitamente pequeño que posee todo lo que conocemos del sol y del canto de los pájaros- se arrastra una plaga desconocida: el hombre, el hombre, que se ha convertido por fin en una enfermedad planetaria y que, si su tecnología aún se lo permitiera, pasaría esta infección a otra estrella.

  Loren Eiseley

  Canción, estrellas, sol

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• When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Agriculture, Air

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Light, Choices, Forever

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.66

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• Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Mean, Healing, Sheep

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• Una vez a cada hombre y nación le llega el momento de decidir.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Knowing Who You Are, Nations

  La crisis actual" (1845)

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• 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, Exile, Pursue

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

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• It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Summer, Spring, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.855, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El racismo es una lacra en la conciencia humana. La idea de que cualquier pueblo puede ser inferior a otro, hasta el punto de que quienes se consideran superiores definen y tratan al resto como infrahumanos, niega la humanidad incluso de quienes se elevan a la categoría de dioses.

  Nelson Mandela

  Ideas, Racismo, Personas

  Nelson Mandela (2011). "Nelson Mandela Por sí mismo: The Authorised Book of Quotations", p.323, Pan Macmillan

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• El amor es como el rosal silvestre; la amistad, como el acebo. El acebo se oscurece cuando florece el rosal, pero ¿cuál florecerá más constantemente? El rosal silvestre es dulce en primavera, sus flores de verano perfuman el aire; pero espera a que vuelva el invierno, ¿y quién dirá que el rosal silvestre es hermoso? Entonces, desprecia ahora la tonta corona de rosas, y adórnate con el brillo del acebo, para que, cuando diciembre marchite tu frente, aún pueda dejar verde tu guirnalda.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Sweet, Spring

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• I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Pain, Disappointment, Stupid

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). "Surrender", Candlewick Press (MA)

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• It's hard to believe that, in the 1970's, America was virtually hunger-free. During the past two decades, we have allowed hunger to attack our most precious resource, our children. We must reinstate and strengthen programs to eliminate this blight on our society.

  Kurtwood Smith

  Children, Believe, Past

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• I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

  Joe Hockey

  Thinking, Lakes, Wind

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