Infection Quotes

• People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

  Elton John

  Sadness, People, Political

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Country, Independent, Science

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• Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

  Jim Rohn

  Wise, Entrepreneur, Words Of Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 24, 2017

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• Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

  Wallace Stevens

  Thinking, Epidemics, Cases

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

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• A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.

  Jane Smiley

  Children, Ideas, May

  FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Jul 28, 2012

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• The fully engaged heart is the antibody for the infection of violence.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Violence, Antibodies

  FaceBook post by Mark Nepo from Jul 16, 2015

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• The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

  Elvis Costello

  Expression, Wages, Sin

  Song: Clean Money, Album: Get Happy!!

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• Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Uprising, Risk, Remember

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.282, Routledge

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• We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

  Luc Montagnier

  Knows

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• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Power, Political, Politics

  1971 In The Listener.

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• I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

  Dick Dale

  Legs

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• A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Religious, Prayer, Soul

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.15, Verso

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• My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

  Luc Montagnier

  Vaccines, People, Population

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• Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

  Luc Montagnier

  Thinking, Vaccines, Goal

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• Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Rights, Class, Community

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ann Dexter Gordon (1997). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866”, p.410, Rutgers University Press

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• In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!

  Patsy Cline

  Heart, Voice, Childhood

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• One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Men, Epidemics, Hiv

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• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  David Geffen

  Apathy, Hiv, Growing

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• Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

  Robert MacNeil

  America, Mind, Degrees

  "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.

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• A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, People, Alternatives

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• I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.

  Daniel Dennett

  Buddhism, Thinking, Religion

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

  Mary McCarthy

  Race, Racism, Evil

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The humanist in the bathtub”

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessed, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  1595 John of Gaunt. Richard II, act 2, sc.1, l.40-50.

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• All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

  Ellen Key

  Air, Offering, Doe

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