Blight Quotes - Page 2

• Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

  John F. Kennedy

  Agency, America, Confusion

  Address of Senator John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, www.jfklibrary.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Un tizón había caído sobre los árboles y los arbustos; y el viento, que por fin empezaba a romper la antinatural quietud que había prevalecido todo el día, suspiraba pesadamente de vez en cuando, como presagiando con dolor los estragos de la tormenta que se avecinaba. El murciélago planeaba en fantásticos vuelos a través del pesado aire, y el suelo estaba lleno de seres rastreros, cuyo instinto los llevaba a hincharse y engordar bajo la lluvia.

  Charles Dickens

  Dolor, lluvia, aire

  Charles Dickens (1870). "Novelas", p.38

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• Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Islands, Doe

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). "El mundo de Evelyn Waugh"

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• Al igual que la mente medieval culpaba a Dios del sufrimiento humano, la mente moderna culpa al "sistema" de la plaga industrial y la plaga de la tecnología.

  Jennifer Stone

  Technology, Mind, Suffering

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• Es muy fácil degradar el deporte, cambiar sus valores, diluir su ética y destruir sus asociaciones tradicionales con la tranquilidad, la relajación y la oportunidad de pensar. La pesca con caña no es un deporte de competición. La única competición real del pescador es con su presa y su único desafío real es el desafío a sí mismo. Nada puede añadirse a esto, pero la plaga de la competición interhumana puede sin duda restarle valor.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Real, Opportunity

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• Qué fácil es que los sentimientos generosos, la alta cortesía y el valor caballeresco pierdan su influencia bajo la escalofriante plaga del egoísmo, y que se muestre al mundo a un hombre que era grande en todos los atributos menores del carácter, pero que se mostró deficiente cuando fue necesario demostrar hasta qué punto los principios son superiores a la política.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Men, Selfishness

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• Los viajeros describen un árbol en la isla de Java cuyas exhalaciones pestilentes arruinan toda brizna de hierba a su sombra. Lo mismo ocurre con el despotismo.

  Giovanni Ruffini

  Islands, Tree, Java

  Giovanni Ruffini (1857). “Doctor Antonio: a tale of Italy”, p.295

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• No es casualidad que, en general, hubiera más belleza y decencia en la vida de los pueblos pequeños, y que entre los grandes hubiera más felicidad y satisfacción en la medida en que habían evitado la plaga mortal de la centralización.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Proportion, Centralization, Found

  "El camino hacia la servidumbre". Libro de Friedrich Hayek, Cap. 15 : Las perspectivas del orden internacional, 1940 - 1943.

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• Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

  Margaret Fuller

  Growth, Might, Soil

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman”, p.47

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• As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Self, Frost, Bud

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Proverbial philosophy”, p.202

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• Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

  Stephen Fry

  Ignorance, Issues, Community

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In Los Angeles, there is so much money and power connected with ostentation that is no longer ludicrous: it commands a kind of respect. For if the mighty behave like this, then quiet good taste means that you can't afford the conspicuous expenditures, and you become a little ashamed of your modesty and propriety.

  Pauline Kael

  Mean, San Francisco, Invasion

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.

  El-P

  Average, People, Intellectual

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• El comportamiento antisocial sigue arruinando vidas, destrozando comunidades y abriendo camino a la delincuencia.

  Theresa May

  Community, Pathways, Behaviour

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Todo lo que veo debe volverse personal; de lo contrario, está muerto y es mecánico. Nuestra única oportunidad de escapar a la plaga de la mecanización, de actuar y pensar igual, de la enorme máquina en que se está convirtiendo la sociedad, es devolver la vida a todas las cosas mediante el poder salvador y benéfico de la imaginación humana.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Thinking, Imagination, Acting

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some trouble, but the trouble they inflict on the minds of students is a blight and a curse.

  Neil Postman

  Teacher, Mind, Enemy

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.116, Vintage

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• The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Men, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Lord Jim”, p.112, Bibliolis Books

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• For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the next generation or two. But religious people have been singularly uncooperative, and new strategies have developed for controlling this blight on human progress. If religion won't "wither away" as philosopher Richard Rorty has wished, then perhaps it can be privatized and thereby removed from influence on public life‚ - sort of like localizing an outbreak of the plague.

  Daniel Taylor

  Religioso, Años, Dos

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• [T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what sounds like hardheaded realism actually rests on a foundation of fantasy, on the belief that invisible vigilantes will punish us if we're bad and the confidence fairy will reward us if we're good. And real-world policy - policy that will blight the lives of millions of working families - is being built on that foundation.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Gente, Intentar

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• Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

  Li Keqiang

  Life, Heart, People

  "China sets 7 per cent growth target, but challenges lie ahead". "PM", www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2015.

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• Long time a child, and still a child, when years Had painted manhood on my cheek, was I; For yet I lived like one not born to die; A thriftless prodigal of smiles and tears— No hope I needed, and I knew no fears. But sleep, though sweet, is only sleep—and waking, I waked to sleep no more; at once o'ertaking The vanguard of my age, with all arrears Of duty on my back. Nor child, nor man, Nor youth, nor sage, I find my head is gray, For I have lost the race I never ran. A rathe December blights my lagging May: And still I am a child, though I be old Time is my debtor for my days untold.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sweet, Children, Sleep

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.13

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• Hide in your heart a bitter thought, Still it has power to blight; Think Love, although you speak it not It gives the world more light.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiración, Corazón, Pensamiento

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Human Condition, Humans, Know How

  Kate Millett (1975). “Flying”

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• El niño esclavo no pensaba en el día siguiente; pero llegó esa plaga que, con demasiada seguridad, espera a todo ser humano nacido para ser esclavo.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Slave Girl, Waiting

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.15

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