Peter Piot Quotes

#1. Accept nothing. Challenge everything.

A.D. Posey

#2. Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

Peter Piot

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

Peter Piot

#4. We all need to begin thinking out of the box.

Peter Piot

#5. Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

Nikki Sixx

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

Peter Piot

#8. Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

Christopher Bollen

#9. I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.

Peter Piot

#10. I love Washington, D.C.; I love this country, but I think over the last hundred years we've built up would I call an arrogant empire: people who think the rest of us are too stupid to make our own decisions.

Lamar Alexander

#11. I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body.

Don McCullin

#12. Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

Jeff Chang

#13. As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.

Kenneth Eade

#14. I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

Steve Maraboli

#15. The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.

Peter Piot

#16. Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

Peter Piot

#17. In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy

Peter Piot