Quotes About Contagion

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.

Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes.

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

The best way to prove the arbitrary character of these categories, and the contagion effect they produce, is to remember how frequently these clusters reverse in history. Today's alliance between Christian fundamentalists and the Israeli lobby would certainly seem puzzling to a nineteenth-century intellectual—Christians used to be anti-Semites and Moslems were the protectors of the Jews, whom they preferred to Christians. Libertarians used to be left-wing. What

it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

The world of contagion is so underestimated!

Smallpox, polio, Ebola, anthrax

There were invisible killers called "diseases" that broke the body down.

Even the idea of contagion itself was novel. "We had no belief that one Man could give [a disease] to another," the Blackfoot raider remembered, "any more than a wounded Man could give his wound to another." Because they knew of no protective measures, the toll was even higher than it would have been.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Il silenzio e l'immobilità della morte erano un vuoto, un buco nero che attirava a sé tutto quello che gli stava vicino; e la spinta era così potente che le vite degli altri si interrompevano, momentaneamente paralizzate da quella forza tremenda e contagiosa.

In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.

I left him and took myself off, having become certain about a fact which was later on to cost me much peace of mind: that in one form or another I was in love with Hosna Bint Mahmoud, the widow of Mustafa Sa'eed, and that I—like him and Wad Rayyes and millions of others—was not immune from the germ of contagion that oozes from the body of the universe.

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

Ideology is a virus.

It tells you that evil is a virus!

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.

The myth-making machine is the mimetic contagion that disappears behind the myth it generates.

If all who have the means run each time this disease appears, then the seeds of the Plague will go with them and be sown far and wide throughout the land until the clean places are infected and the contagion is magnified a thousandfold. If God saw fit to send this scourge, I believe it would be His will that one face it where one was, with courage, and thus contain its evil.

Jerry Sternin) scoprì gli esempi positivi e li diffuse in una sorta di contagio benefico. Si concentrò su quello che funzionava per riprodurlo, piuttosto che su quello che non funzionava per cercare, inutilmente, di ripararlo.

Se o invejado é na verdade superior ao invejoso, ninguém pode nada contra ele: o grande tem de descer até ao pequeno para ser contagiado.

The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.