Epidemics Quotes · Page 3

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

— Nathan Wolfe

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

— Alpha Conde

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

— Michael Specter

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

— Ethel Waters

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

— Richard Pryor

There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

— Richard Jeni

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

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

— Tedros Adhanom

The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've…

— Eric Schlosser

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

— Jenny McCarthy

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I…

— Ashley Judd

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— Jon Porter

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Bernard Hopkins

People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t…

— Caitlin Moran

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough…

— George Bernard Shaw

Our countries are weaker: they cannot protect us from imported goods, they can't protect us from climate change, they cannot protect us…

— Mohsin Hamid

“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just…

— Christopher Hitchens

Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just…

— Thandie Newton

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

— Morgan Spurlock

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody,…

— LeAnn Rimes

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

— Russell Conwell

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

— Peter Piot

The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

— Malcolm Gladwell

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Chris Brown

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

— Anonymous

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

— Georges Didi-Huberman

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

— Michel Sidibe

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

— James Rainwater

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

— Christopher McDougall

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a…

— Anonymous

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

— Monica Raymund

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

For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men…

— Mark Hatfield