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Quotes About Eradication

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
~ Seth Berkley
For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
~ Bill Gates
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
~ Edward Jenner
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
~ Barton Gellman
Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed.
~ Charles C. Mann
Artists. If the Emperor has his way, you'll be the first ones targeted for eradication.
~ James Luceno
The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process.
~ Robert Kennedy
If we hadn't broken every single WHO rule many times over, we would never have defeated samllpox. Never. - Arita, leader of smallpox eradication effort
~ Laurie Garrett
Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
~ Stephen Hawking
I have no idea when (or if) racism will be eradicated. I have no idea whether anything I say, do, or write will make the least bit of difference in the world. But I say it, do it, and write it anyway, because as uncertain as the outcome of our resistance may be, the outcome of our silence and inaction is anything but.
~ Tim Wise
And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.
~ Henry Kissinger
Vaccines have played a fundamental role in eradicating terrible illnesses such as polio, diphtheria, and hepatitis. However, they bring a risk associated with side-effects that are usually temporary and surmountable... but, in very rare cases, can be as severe as getting the same disease you're trying to be immune to.
~ Beppe Grillo
We promote the cure, thus effecting the slow eradication of our own market
~ Jasper Fforde
They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.
~ Jay Leno
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
~ Olusegun Obasanjo
He had to get rid of her.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The only way we can eradicate human behavior is to eradicate humans, and that strikes me as pretty extreme.
~ Dave Rubin
It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.
~ Michael Specter
I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against the Left's style of orthodoxy.
~ Andrew Breitbart
The ultimate goal of science is uncertainty's total eradication.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Most of it has probably gone into erad by now, but they may have a few terminal typescript manuscripts.
~ Philip K. Dick
Como en el resto de las tendencias destructivas, el hecho de que el empleo del maltrato tenga una lógicas adaptativa subyacente no significa que debamos aceptarlo, desearlo o descuidar su erradicación. Por el contrario, una mayor comprensión de la lógica que subyace a tales tácticas y de los contextos en que se producen puede llevar a métodos más eficaces para reducirlas o eliminarlas.
~ David M. Buss
It's all well and good to stay in the institutions you care about, but wouldn't it be nice to feel that the institution, in turn, cared about you, or at least wasn't hell-bent on your eradication or, failing that, the legislating away of your rights?
~ David Rakoff