Top Epidemics Quotes Collection

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Image of LeAnn Rimes
We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.
- LeAnn Rimes
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Lori Lansens
The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.
- Lori Lansens
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Richard Pryor
Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
- Richard Pryor
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Katha Pollitt
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.
- Katha Pollitt
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Sarah Schulman
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.
- Sarah Schulman
Collection: Epidemics
Image of David L. Katz
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Edmund Clowney
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
- Edmund Clowney
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Peter Piot
Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
- Peter Piot
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
- Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Tate Taylor
Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
- Tate Taylor
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Jared Diamond
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.
- Jared Diamond
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Freundel Stuart
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Mike DeWine
It's in every single county. It's in our cities but it's also in our wealthier suburbs. It's in our small towns. There is no place in Ohio where you can hide from drug epidemic .
- Mike DeWine
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Shereen El Feki
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
- Shereen El Feki
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Devra Davis
There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.
- Devra Davis
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Abiola Abrams
Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.
- Abiola Abrams
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Michael Botticelli
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Tom Harkin
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Ebola has killed almost 12,000 people and at least 500 health workers. So it affected the entire population. And as you know, the World Health Organization was accused of not having declared an epidemic soon enough. And that's when we saw Ebola rampaging through Sierra Leone, Liberia and, to a lesser extent, Guinea.
- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Michael J. Silverstein
Epidemics of "bad" voice can kill your reputation overnight.
- Michael J. Silverstein
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Peter Høeg
Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.
- Peter Høeg
Collection: Epidemics
Image of George Bernard Shaw
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Kurt Vonnegut
That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Libba Bray
My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.
- Libba Bray
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Ronald Reagan
It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Paul Ryan
We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.
- Paul Ryan
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Rihanna
HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.
- Rihanna
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Jonas Salk
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
- Jonas Salk
Collection: Epidemics
Image of William J. Clinton
One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Richard Jeni
There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Mike DeWine
This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.
- Mike DeWine
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Richard Dawkins
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).
- Richard Dawkins
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Mark Hyman, M.D.
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
- Mark Hyman, M.D.
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Jill Stein
Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
- Jill Stein
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Jill Lepore
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Jim Gaffigan
I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
- Jim Gaffigan
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
- Malcolm Gladwell
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
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.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
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
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
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.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
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.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Malcolm Gladwell
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
- Malcolm Gladwell
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Bill Gates
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
- Bill Gates
Collection: Epidemics
Image of James Anthony Froude
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
- James Anthony Froude
Collection: Epidemics
Image of Dennis Kucinich
We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.
- Dennis Kucinich
Collection: Epidemics