Smallpox Quotes

49 quotes by 35 authors

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their… — William S. Burroughs
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the… — Jimmy Carter
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. — Woody Allen
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am… — Luis Walter Alvarez
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins
It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think… — Richard Dawkins
I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion… — Richard Dawkins
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
We do know that the Iraqi regime has chemical and biological weapons. His regime has amassed large, clandestineÂ stockpiles of chemical weaponsÂ - including VX,… — Donald Rumsfeld
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the… — Avicenna
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any… — H. L. Mencken
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. — Stanley Norman Cohen
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
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians… — George Bernard Shaw
Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what… — Michael Savage
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,… — Richard Preston
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. — Larry Brilliant
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. — Charles Studd

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