Epidemics Quotes - Page 10

• It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

  Ronald Reagan

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• As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

  Richard Carmona

  Men, California, San Francisco

  "Surgeon General Koop: The Legacy of a Health Warrior" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

  Jill Lepore

  Viruses, Patterns, Disease

  "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.

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• When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

  Judith Martin

  Art, Healing, Boredom

  Judith Martin (1986). “Style and substance: a comedy of manners”, Scribner

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• As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Ebola, Vaccines, Community

  "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

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• Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Disease, Contracts

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• We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

  Robert Lustig

  Mother, Exercise, Six Months

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• Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

  Hans Zinsser

  Christian, Civilization, Earthquakes

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.

  Marc Forster

  Country, Walking Dead, Zombie

  Source: collider.com

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• Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Taste, Wellness, Illness

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• We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.

  Todd Haynes

  Baby, Gay, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Mcdonalds, Obesity Epidemic, Retrospect

  Jim Gaffigan (2014). “Food: A Love Story”, p.213, Crown Archetype

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• We now have a national security consideration, public health issues, we have an epidemic of heroine overdoses in all places in this country because of the ease of bringing heroine in. We have to secure the border.

  Jeb Bush

  Country, Issues, Borders

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• We had the great depression, we had two world wars, we had the flu epidemic. We had oil shock. We had all these terrible things happen. But something about the American system unleashed more and of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in - there's never been any - I mean, you have centuries where if you've got a 1 percent improvement, then it's something. So we've got a great system. And we've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  War, Mean, Years

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• We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing.

  Peter McWilliams

  Attitude, War, Drug

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• Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

  Georges Didi-Huberman

  Photography, Memories, Hands

  Georges Didi-Huberman (2008). “Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

  Michael Botticelli

  Alcohol, Drug, Half

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, War, Risk

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Lying, Wife, Care

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• Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Voice, Reputation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

  Jill Lepore

  Order, Stories, Patterns

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• We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

  Mary Calderone

  Baby, Polio Vaccine, Class

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• I think it's a major epidemic in women, faking orgasms. So many women in this world feel like they are put on this planet to please men, that they have to fake, and they never worry about their own pleasure.

  Jenna Jameson

  Men, Thinking, Worry

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• Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mean, Keys, Law

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• Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

  Richard Pryor

  White, Drug, Calling

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