Epidemics Quotes
139 quotes by 111 authors
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It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very…
— Tom Frieden
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We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation,…
— Vladimir Putin
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a…
— Al Gore
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There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's…
— Harry Browne
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We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank…
— Dennis Kucinich
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We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight…
— Rick Larsen
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Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply:Â happen:Â to people, rather than be being caused…
— Thomas Sowell
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Today, few Americans are aware of the spiritual epidemic that wiped out the land of our Christian forefathers. Even fewer are aware that the same…
— Ken Ham
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Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we…
— R C Sproul
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Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected,…
— Marvin Olasky
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I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the…
— Caitlin Moran
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As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is…
— Scott Harshbarger
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still…
— Jared Diamond
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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
— Deborah Prothrow-Stith
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The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.
— Peter Piot
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Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
— Peter Piot
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Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in…
— David Mixner
Who Wrote These Epidemics Quotes
111 authors contributed a total of 139 Epidemics Quotes, led by these top contributors: