Top 77 Epidemic Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Epidemic Quotes from famous people such as Elizabeth Esty, Alan Huffman, Seth Berkley, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lowell Bergman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three

Since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School three years ago, we have lost over 90,000 Americans to gun violence. This is a manmade crisis that needs to be treated as the public health epidemic it has become.
Elizabeth Esty
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
Alan Huffman
As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase – something we haven’t seen much of for decades – but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.
Seth Berkley
The AIDS epidemic began before I was born – I’ve never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in our lives, there remains a pervasive silence around AIDS among young people, particularly young women.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there’s sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually – when you call them up on the phone, they’ll say, ‘This is off the record,’ or, ‘This is on background,’ or they don’t even wait for you to say anything.
Lowell Bergman
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Wallace Stevens
It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend.
Richard J. Codey
I couldn’t open up a magazine, you couldn’t read a newspaper, you couldn’t turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.
Morgan Spurlock
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it’s hard to make your peace with.
Brad Pitt
History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly… the harshest words will be reserved for how the world responded, or rather failed to respond, to the epidemic.
Seth Berkley
Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.
Anne Applebaum
The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.
Hunter S. Thompson
When I first ran for mayor in 2005, I made a pledge to confront the epidemic of gun violence in Braddock.
John Fetterman
However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
Bob Filner
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
Mark Hyman
Kids need other kids, they need school. But we also don’t need an epidemic.
Norman Swan
If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.
Richard Carmona
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It’s disgusting, and it must change.
Monica Raymund
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‘easy believism.’ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy Graham
Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer’s epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive – and ultimately fatal – disease unless its course can be altered.
Jeanne Phillips
The abuse of power in Hollywood is an epidemic that needs to change and hopefully the women brave enough to speak out against Harvey Weinstein have made other men look at the behaviour and realise it is unacceptable.
Keeley Hazell
The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an ‘epidemic of gun violence.’
David Souter
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
Matthew Desmond
I think the world should unite and focus on strong health systems to prepare the whole world to prevent epidemics – or if there is an outbreak, to manage it quickly – because viruses don’t respect borders, and they don’t need visas.
Tedros Adhanom
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
Philip Emeagwali
You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
Chris Murphy
Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. – as a society and as an industry – we’ve made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.
Bruce Broussard
There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
Kevin Young
When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.
Scott Gottlieb
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
Shereen El Feki
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
Rick Larsen
The persistent belief that we are living through an epi

The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
Heather Mac Donald
I just want to recognize, the HIV epidemic was solved by the community, the HIV advocates and activists who stood up when no one was listening and got everyone’s attention.
Deborah Birx
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I’m hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
S. Jay Olshansky
There is a crisis that is not political – an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness – and we’re completely unequal to dealing with it.
Richard Flanagan
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
Iris Chang
The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
Pardis Sabeti
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it’s not happening here. It doesn’t exist. It’s not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it’s everywhere.
Uzodinma Iweala
This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.
Marcia Fudge
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
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.
Jared Diamond
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
Peter Agre
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
Tom Vilsack
With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.
Nathan Wolfe
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
Tim Holden
The time I spent working with our law enforcement community when I was Senator McConnell’s general counsel gave me the breadth of relationships, helping them confront what I, in many ways, think has become the public safety challenge of our lifetime – the drug epidemic.
Daniel Cameron
There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.
Engelbert Humperdinck
Part of my job at ‘The Economist’ was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
Shereen El Feki
Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication.
Andrew Weil
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
Jenny McCarthy
One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism – there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.
Daphne Zuniga