Contagion Quotes - Page 2

• There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Mind, Example

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.78, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Nice, Mean, Awards

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• Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

  John Dryden

  Tears

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 1.

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• Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Words Of Wisdom, Selfishness

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.127

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• The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Punishment, Evil, Together

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• The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

  Alan Greenspan

  Long, Debt, Finance

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• All the contagion of the south light on you,
  You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
  Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
  Further than seen, and one infect another
  Against the wind a mile!

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Rome, Wind

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

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• Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Integrity, Love Life, Caught

  "Mirror Dance". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.

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• I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Civilization, America

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• When first the college rolls receive his name,
  The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame;
  Through all his veins the fever of renown
  Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Strong, Quilts

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Wall, Broken, Doe

  "Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.

  Steve Carell

  Mean, Wife, Done

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• The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even this deliberate doubt could scarcely be upheld; did we not enlarge our view, and opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling; while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  'Four Dissertations' (1757) 'The Natural History of Religion' sect. 15

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• It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Passion, Enthusiasm

  Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2016). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.125, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Suicide, Daughter, Song

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• Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Today's World, Danger

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But he still says so. There was no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaida. But he still says so. And thus, gripping firmly these figments of his own imagination, Mr. Cheney lives on, in defiance, and spreads - around him and before him - darkness, like some contagion of fear. They are never wrong, and they never regret - admirable in a French torch singer, cataclysmic in an American leader.

  Keith Olbermann

  Regret, Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

  Craig Ferguson

  Talking, Bird, Waiting

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• Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.

  Michael Mauboussin

  Fashion, Strong, Ideas

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• Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

  John Adams

  Character, Slavery, Foul

  John Adams' Letter to Joseph Ward, founders.archives.gov. January 8, 1810.

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• If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Country, Mean, Responsibility

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• Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

  Kode9

  Memories, Real, Taken

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Running, Memories, Journey

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• * to know a lot of people I love pieces of, and to want to synthesize those pieces in me somehow, be it by painting or writing. * to know that millions of others are unhappy and that life is a gentleman's agreement to grin and paint your face gay so others will feel they are silly to be unhappy, and try to catch the contagion of joy, while inside so many are dying of bitterness and unfulfillment.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Writing, Gay

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