Epidemics Quotes · Page 10

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Akong Rinpoche

If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which…

— Boris Sidis

We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the…

— Todd Haynes

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

— Malcolm Gladwell

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

— Joyce Meyer

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Jill Lepore

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic…

— Michelle Obama

I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on…

— Jenna Jameson

[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and…

— Pitirim Sorokin

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about…

— Tate Taylor

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

— Carl Jung

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

— James Rainwater

I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and…

— Bernard Hopkins

As the diagnosis of autism is increasing the diagnosis of mental retardation is decreasing. And more and more on the other end,…

— Gerald Fischbach

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There…

— Brad Pitt

There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are…

— Eve Ensler

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity…

— Morgan Spurlock

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

— Chris Brown

Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals,…

— Josh Ross

We have an epidemic of sexual predators following our children, whether it be on the computers, whether it be in our public…

— Jon Porter