Contagion Quotes

52 Contagion quotes by 43 unique authors

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making… — Lynne McTaggart
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends. — John Dryden
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. — Thomas Paine
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force… — Douglas Rushkoff
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
Where does contagion end and art begin? — Neil Gaiman
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease… — Sylvia Plath
…* to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting… — Sylvia Plath
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A… — CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear. — Dan Brown
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there… — Frans de Waal
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can… — Alan Greenspan
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear… — Alan Greenspan
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. — Nancy Gibbs
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him,… — Harry Crews
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole
War is a contagion. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone,… — Peer Steinbruck
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not… — Elwyn Brooks White
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder
[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion. — Unknown Author

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