Epidemics quotes

Epidemics

214 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

214 quotes

Explore further

Browse quotes that often appear alongside epidemics — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.

Men 68.6K quotes People 100.4K quotes War 17K quotes Thinking 95.1K quotes Children 25.4K quotes Aids Epidemic 12 quotes

Quote collection

Epidemics quotes (page 2 of 11)

Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.

Ishmael Reed Writer
Epidemics

"How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman."

New York California Epidemics
Read quote 7 likes
Michelle Obama Lawyer, Author, First Lady
Epidemics

"For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time."

Children Epidemics Obesity Epidemic
Read quote 7 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Epidemics

"The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic."

Would Be Epidemics Vaccines
Read quote 6 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Epidemics

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

Would Be Natural Epidemics
Read quote 6 likes
Marc Forster Film Director, Producer
Epidemics

"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."

Country Epidemics Walking Dead
Read quote 6 likes
Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Epidemics

"Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom."

Men Sex Epidemics
Read quote 6 likes
Mel Robbins Author, motivational speaker
Epidemics

"Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States."

Thinking Two Epidemics
Read quote 6 likes
Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Epidemics

"The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules."

Sports Nba Epidemics
Read quote 6 likes
C.L. Bryant Author, Speaker
Epidemics

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

Men Black Epidemics
Read quote 5 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Epidemics

"We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging."

People Community Epidemics
Read quote 5 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Epidemics

"The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic."

Wake Up Epidemics Ebola
Read quote 5 likes
Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Epidemics

"If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are."

People Epidemics Vaccines
Read quote 5 likes
Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Epidemics

"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."

People Epidemics Tipping
Read quote 5 likes
Howard Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
Epidemics

"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."

Mean War Epidemics
Read quote 5 likes
Seth Musician
Epidemics

"It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die."

Self Gun Epidemics
Read quote 4 likes