Culture Quote by Abiola Abrams

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

— Colson Whitehead

Folks can look at this issue and read it and it can feel like medicine, it can feel epidemic. We wanted this to hit…

— Ava DuVernay

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

— Jonas Salk

There is a hidden epidemic threatening the lives of millions of Americans...hunger. In this land of plenty, it is unthinkable that fellow citizens are…

— Swoosie Kurtz

“An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” epidemic.”

— Rhonda Byrne

When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors'…

— Jennifer Lee

“We are  ‘medicating’ our future away because it is easier than stretching our comfort zones and learning how to nurture and develop that future.”

— Kevin Emery

We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer…

— Stanley McChrystal

“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.”

— Paul Levy

“Food intolerance is in the process of turning into a plague in modern society.”

— Steven Magee