Epidemics Quotes · Page 3

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

— Kurt Vonnegut

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

— Rihanna

Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

— Nicolas Chamfort

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.

— Akong Rinpoche

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

— Sarah Schulman

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

— Bill Gates

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

— Kimberly Williams-Paisley

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first…

— Rachel Cusk

We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do…

— Robert Lustig

We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be…

— Barack Obama

Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate…

— John F. Kerry

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to…

— Park Won-soon

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional…

— Richard Carmona

People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to…

— Karen Maitland

“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas…

— Linda Marsa

The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for…

— Richard Owen

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic…

— Jenny McCarthy

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot…

— Morgan Fairchild

We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime!…

— Peter McWilliams

The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much…

— Jon Stewart

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more…

— William J. Clinton

Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of…

— Dennis Altman

Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three…

— Donald Ray Pollock

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

— Judith Martin

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

— Kin Hubbard

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

— Alpha Conde

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

— Katha Pollitt

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

— Nathan Wolfe

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

— C.L. Bryant

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

— Tony Porter

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

— Jonas Salk

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

— Shereen El Feki

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

— Abiola Abrams

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

— Peter Piot

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

— Bill Gates

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of…

— Heather Brewer

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when…

— Jill Lepore

I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks…

— Bill Gates

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their…

— Malcolm Gladwell