Epidemics Quotes

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

— George Bernard Shaw

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

— Anonymous

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

— Carl Jung

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

— Don Ward

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

— Robert Atkins

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

— Jon Stewart

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

— Mike DeWine

Fashions are induced epidemics.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

— Sarah Schulman

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

— Akong Rinpoche

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

— James Anthony Froude

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

— Rihanna

Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But…

— Rosie Batty

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major…

— Deborah Prothrow-Stith

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to…

— Bill Gates

With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you…

— Nathan Wolfe

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy…

— Leo Tolstoy

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and…

— Peter Agre

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected,…

— Hillary Clinton

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity…

— Morgan Spurlock

“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation…

— Cacilda Jethá

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed…

— John Brunner

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you…

— Julie Gerberding

Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When I first came up, the whole AIDS epidemic was starting, and the gay community that I experienced from the beginning of…

— Madonna Ciccone

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate…

— Margaret Chan

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic…

— Milan Kundera

I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel…

— Joycelyn Elders

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a…

— Carl Jung

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the…

— Polybius

We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all…

— Howard Warren Buffett

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or…

— Harry Browne

Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this…

— Herbert Hoover

“increases of the infectivity rate may lead to large epidemics.” This quiet warning has echoed loudly ever since. It’s a cardinal truth,…

— David Quammen