Epidemics Quotes - Page 3

• On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Aids Epidemic, People

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• The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Small Changes, Differences, Church

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• Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

  Alpha Conde

  Inspiring, Ebola, World

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• More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Children, Childhood, Adults

  Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin

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• If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

  Tom Harkin

  Children, School, Obesity Epidemic

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• There's, under Obama, an epidemic has developed of abusing national security laws to crack down on legitimate use of the First Amendment.

  Julian Assange

  Law, Use, Firsts

  "Sean Hannity Is Now a Big Julian Assange Fan". Interview, www.slate.com. September 7, 2016.

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• The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

  F. L. Lucas

  War, Insecurity, Fundamentals

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• We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

  Arshile Gorky

  Art, War, Ignorance

  Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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• Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Country, Fighting, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, Men, Two

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Tipping, Starting

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• Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

  Brad Pitt

  Greed, Criminals, Deregulation

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• Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Alzheimer's, Years, Warning

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• The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Tipping, Answers

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2000.

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• This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Stupid, Stupidity, Cures

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• Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Nike, Faults

  Christopher McDougall (2009). “Born to Run”, p.179, Vintage

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• That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Order, Movement, Tipping

  "How to start an epidemic" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

  Libba Bray

  Misery, Reaching, Proportion

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• We are spending millions, if not billions of dollars every year on programs to fight the childhood obesity epidemic while giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries to make the epidemic worse.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Fighting, Years, Obesity Epidemic

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• We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

  Michel Sidibe

  Running, Moral, Injustice

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• The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.

  Freundel Stuart

  Two, Ill Health, Disease

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• The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

  C.L. Bryant

  Men, Black, Crime

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• There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's legal. There are only criminal gangs fighting over territories covering drugs, gambling, prostitution, and other victimless crimes. Making a non-violent activity a crime creates a black market, which attracts criminals and gangs, which turns what was once a relatively harmless activity affecting a small group of people into a widespread epidemic of drug use and gang warfare.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Drug Use, Gambling

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Credit, Eczema, London

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• Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian nation, it became a genuine drama. Tens of millions of our co-citizens and co-patriots found themselves outside Russian territory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Drama, Russia, Territory

  "Prince Charles is right: Similarites between Putin and Hitler are uncanny" Rep. Trent Franks, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2014.

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