Columbus Quote by Richard Wilbur

“merchants who financed this expedition viewed it as a reconnaissance mission rather than a trading venture and little cargo was loaded on board the…

— Giles Milton

“Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if we think we are whole…

— Robert Graves

“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

“COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!”

— John Green

“He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were…

— Richard Preston

“if Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we…

— Voltaire

“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.”

— Peter H. Gregory

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

— Emile M. Cioran

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians…

— Jared Diamond

“There is some sickness in man, some paranoid delusion, some grandiose morbidity that runs right through to distant ancestors. Or maybe it is the…

— John Joseph Adams

“Our society has made it extremely difficult for those living with the virus to declare their status”

— Oche Otorkpa