Quotes by Epidemics Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. Colin Wilson hysteriaepidemicsignorance 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 aids-epidemicepidemicspopulation 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 epidemicsunited-statesyears Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages. David Lodge epidemicsagebelieve 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 epidemicsmediapurpose Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases. Dennis Altman epidemicswrathpolitical I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled". Demetri Martin epidemicshumorfunny 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 epidemicsagreementamerica 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 epidemicsfightingyears The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals. Derek Jarman epidemicschristianmen 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 epidemicsusepeople Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic. Don Ward epidemicsoptimisticreading 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 epidemicspurposepeople The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones. Elizabeth Jane Howard divorceepidemicsfamily All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic. Ethel Waters epidemicsepicmen 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 epidemicsinsecuritywar There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men? Eve Ensler epidemicsconnectionsmen 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 ill-healthepidemicstwo Neanderthals might think differently than we do. We know that they had a larger cranial size. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet or whatever, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial. George M. Church epidemicsintelligentthinking Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power. Georges Didi-Huberman epidemicsphotographymemories«1234567891011»
