Top 319 Epidemic Quotes & Sayings

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

My misery is reaching epidemic proportions.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.

We cannot run away from the TB epidemic. It is a moral injustice.

Today, few Americans are aware of the spiritual epidemic that wiped out the land of our Christian forefathers. Even fewer are aware that the same epidemic has reached our own shores, spreading like a virus.

That speci?c remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.

How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

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.

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

Bullying is a national epidemic.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.

As a mom, grandma and governor of Iowa, I believe we have an opportunity and a responsibility to combat the teen vaping epidemic.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.

We have an epidemic of obese six-month-olds. We actually have an epidemic of obese newborns. They don't diet and exercise. How do you explain that? It's what the mother consumed. Well, who told her to do that? The obstetricians.

The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

Right now we also have this epidemic of obesity and diabetes.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.

[Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.