Quotes About Propagation

Once a viral program gets started, there is nothing to stop it.

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.

Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.

Images contaminate us like viruses.

One drop of water can cause ripples for miles!

Io faccio il mio mestiere, capito? Io sono un libraio, vado in giro, vedo un sacco di gente, vendo i libri, scopro talenti nascosti sotto le montagne di carta… io propago idee. Il mio mestiere è il più rischioso del mondo, capito? Sono responsabile della diffusione dei pensieri, magari di quelli più scomodi.

When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Le silence, c'est la meilleure production qu'on puisse faire, parce qu'il se propage : on ne le signe pas et tout le monde en profite.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Although the arms and kings of the world should serve the purpose of peace in the kingdom of Christ for the sake of teaching and propagating the Gospel, that kingdom should not be administered through laws. For laws do not make Christians. No, the Word and the sacraments — the Eucharist, Baptism, etc. — establish and build the kingdom of Christ.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

A field tends of itself to multiply.

If the ultimate purpose of your life is your children, what's the purpose of your children's lives? To have your grandchildren? Isn't anyone's life ultimately meaningful in itself? If not, what's the point of propagating it ad infinitum?

En todo caso, a cualquier observador imparcial le resulta evidente que el individuo humano no puede ser feliz, que no ha sido concebido en absoluto para la felicidad, y que su único destino posible es propagar la desgracia a su alrededor, haciendo que la vida de los demás sea tan intolerable como la suya propia; y por lo general, sus primeras víctimas son sus padres.

Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?

Saul came from a family who knew what that meant. It meant Ioudaïsmos: as we saw, not a "religion" called "Judaism" in the modern Western sense, a system of piety and morality, but the active propagation of the ancestral way of life, defending it against external attacks and internal corruption and urging the traditions of the Torah upon other Jews, especially when they seemed to be compromising.

The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)

True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.