Quote by Laura Spinney

“No other disease, no war, no natural disaster, no famine comes close to the great pandemic. In the space of eighteen months in 1918–1919,…

— Albert Marrin

[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to…

— Rudolph Rummel

“Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human…

— Yuval Noah Harari

How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?

— Bob Dylan

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

— Anthony Fauci

“On average, every year, thirty-five people in the United States die of the plague; close to two thousand worldwide. But those are hardly frightening…

— Jacqueline Druga

“He estimates the number of deaths worldwide as 100 million, a larger number than the conventional estimate of 20 to 40 million. But, he…

— Gina Kolata

“Experts with an intimate knowledge of the case say that the real number of his total victims is likely closer to four hundred.”

— Charles Graeber

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant…

— Anonymous

“From late 1988, when the Franklin case first broke into public view, until mid-1991, at least 15 people associated with the case as investigators,…

— John W. DeCamp

“What has been the biggest cause of bloodshed?  In fact, what has been the leading cause of death, in America over the last thirty…

— John Price

“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent…

— Yuval Noah Harari