Quotes About Contagion

y hemos contagiado a la comunidad física mundial nuestros niveles matemáticos escandalosamente bajos.

Rather, cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.

It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.

Cowardice is like a plague; it spreads. One sick individual can infect an entire population.

COVER UP EACH COUGH OR SNEEZE…FOOLS AND TRAITORS SPREAD DISEASE.

COUGH OR SNEEZE…FOOLS AND TRAITORS SPREAD DISEASE.

Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion!

A rotten fish spoils all the fish in the basket.

I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.

History is filled with weird but true stories of social contagion - from dancing manias in the Middle Ages to nuns pretending to be cats in the 19th century to laughing epidemics of Tanzanian school girls in the 1960s.

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

El hecho de que una persona ejerza tan profundo efecto en ti transforma todas tus maniobras posteriores. Tu intenso deseo contagiará a tu objetivo, y le brindará la peligrosa sensación de tener poder sobre ti.

We need to incorporate the contagion of narratives into economic theory. Otherwise, we remain blind to a very real, very palpable, very important mechanism for economic change, as well as a crucial element for economic forecasting. If we do not understand the epidemics of popular narratives, we do not fully understand changes in the economy and in economic behavior.

Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

In a nation distracted by faction, there are, no doubt, always a few, though commonly but a very few, who preserve their judgment untainted by the general contagion. They seldom amount to more than, here and there, a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily, upon that very account, one of the most insignificant men in the society.

You must flee from them as you flee from roses that cannot be touched without exposure to the thorns. You must fear an agreeable contagion, the more dangerous because it is hidden. The serpent glides among the flowers.

wondering at what point rational fear of contagion turned to unreasoning dread

Humanity is contagious.

Conspiracy contagion thrived on possibility and coincidence as vectors.

After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, "Here was an entire nation Ã¢â'¬Â¦ infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.

Thomas Wolfe wrote, "Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Hatfield and her colleagues sum up emotional contagion research with an Arabic proverb: "A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot.