Social contagion - a cluster of friends that infect each other with bad habits. — New York Magazine Article Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“She smiled at him like a freshman invited to the senior prom. It made my blood boil.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“The sound of him drinking was indescribable—like dirty runoff down a storm drain.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the… — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles. — Theresa Tam Copy Share Image
When the Asian flu hit the United States in 1957, during the Eisenhower administration, it was just the latest contagion college students… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm. You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know the best, most effective transmitter of contagion known to man? Edgerton asks me with a pinprick of… — Nick Cutter Copy Share Image
“It's a toxic world out there folks, use caution when connecting online & offline. There's a darker side to going viral with… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized… — George Will Copy Share Image
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union,… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
“When, however, it is proposed to imbue the mind of a crowd with ideas and beliefs—with modern social theories, for instance—the leaders… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life.… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“Bad information propagated by powerful people spreads like a contagion, infecting vulnerable people in its path.” — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions. — Michael Mauboussin Copy Share Image
“Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct. — Alycia Debnam-Carey Copy Share Image
“Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.” — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
“It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop. — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
