Epidemics Quotes

• 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
  • World
  • War
  • Revolution

• 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
  • Contagious
  • Regarding
  • Epidemics

• 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
  • Epidemics

• All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Epic
  • Epidemics

• We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Bird
  • Alarmist
  • Bird flu

• I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• 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
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Polio vaccine

• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Cancer
  • Disease
  • Numbers

• Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Epidemics
  • Fashions
  • Tradesmen

• Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Government
  • Childhood
  • Obesity

• There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Disease
  • Epidemics
  • Nobleness

• 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
  • Climate Change
  • Epidemics
  • Nuclear War

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

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Disease
  • Contracts
  • Epidemics

• I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Epidemics
  • Gun violence
  • Campus sexual assault

• I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

  

  Michael Specter
  • Medicine
  • Aids
  • Posts

• Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Epidemics
  • Bioterrorism

• It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

  

  Bill Gates
  • War
  • Epidemics
  • Preparations

• If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Society
  • Victim
  • Diseases

• The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

  

  David Foreman
  • Development
  • Welcome
  • Inevitable

• Epidemic obesity is unquestionably a health crisis in the United States, and for that matter, in much of the world. But it is a crisis in slow motion, one that has crept up on us over years, and even decades.

  

  David L. Katz
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Motion

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

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Drug
  • Calling
  • Folks