"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security……" — Jared Diamond

"AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq."

— Jared Diamond

88 Quotes by Jared Diamond

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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;… — Aristotle
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;… — Charles Babbage
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going… — J. G. Ballard
I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care.… — Jello Biafra
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone… — Bono
Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency. — Bono
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with… — Bono
You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims… — Bono
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? — Elayne Boosler
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular… — Christina Aguilera
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute… — Jean de la Bruyere

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