Compare Quote by Bill Gates

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

— James Monroe

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

— Martha Gellhorn

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover…

— Pearl S. Buck

“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Peter Piot

“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 you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait,…

— Bill Gates

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

— Jimmy Carter

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria…

— Sandor Katz

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe…

— Margaret Chan

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

— Peter C. Doherty