George MacDonald Quotes

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

War remains the decisive human failure.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

If the death and disaster that now fall upon innocent people through the year and over our country as a whole were concentrated into one calamity, we would shudder at the tremendous catastrophe. The loss is no less disastrous because diffused in time and space.

in the clash of contending armies and amid the groans of the wounded and the dying, the interests of education are sacrificed – the pacific virtues take their flight from the earth

Every war is a national misfortune.

I don’t pray often, but on this occasion I pray devoutly that the Armies of Europe may bleed each other till they faint with the loss of blood..

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.