Contagion Quotes

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.

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.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

War is a 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.

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

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.