Contagion Quotations

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a policy of not allowing any blacks.

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

The market is responding to strong economic fundamentals -- there is no inflation and there is the awareness that the Asian contagion won't cripple us.

We have reams of scientific data that tell us without exception that by far the highest incidence of any transmittable contagion happens in industrial farm applications. That's where animals are in cramped, unhealthy conditions, and vulnerable to widespread disease outbreak.

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

We don't have the same concerns about a financial contagion that we saw spread once through the region of Asia and then, certainly, in Russia. This hasn't been the same type of flight to quality that the Russian situation put upon us.

It is vitally important for Latin America, the rest of the world and the United States that the international community take all steps sensible to limit the contagion that has come from the Asian financial crisis, and helping Brazil is very important in that respect also, ... What is most important though in this instance ? is the effective implementation of a strong economic program that Brazil has announced.

Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet; already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.

For a long time, no one ever wanted to admit that television was anything but this horrible, horrible contagion in society.