#scourge

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#been #colorado #getting #immune #larger

The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#basic #dual #full #given #health

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men. ↗

— King Hussein I

#blocks #burden #civilized #developing #development

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ↗

— Lucretius

#apply #blows #dungeon #executioner #goad

Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#japan #nuclear #nuclear weapons #only #scourge

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

— Martin Luther

#any #destroys #families #greatest #humanity

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#greatest #i #mankind #scourge #view