Quotes About Aids

#1. I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.

Camille Paglia

#2. The lesson is the same as it always has been to the HIV/AIDS community: embrace and celebrate the progress while not letting up the pressure until there is a cure.

David Mixner

#3. You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.

Gene Sperling

#4. I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

Elton John

#5. I would be so scared if I was a gay guy ... you'll, like, die of AIDS.

Paris Hilton

#6. Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Bono

#7. Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

Charles B. Rangel

#9. While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.

Queen Latifah

#10. AIDS is still around. Therefore, you have to practice safe sex.

Mechai Viravaidya

#11. Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?

Liya Kebede

#12. AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion ... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Jared Diamond

#13. To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.

Abbas Kiarostami

#14. I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

Dennis Rodman

#15. I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know.

Anthony Jeselnik

#16. It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.

Mike DeWine

#17. HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Annie Lennox

#18. Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

Anthony Fauci

#19. The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS is far more than a health crisis. It is a threat to development itself.

Kofi Annan

#20. Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

#21. I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that ... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

Kelly Reichardt

#22. Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#23. Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Janine Benyus

#24. When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

Edmund White

#25. Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The

Peter Singer

#26. From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

Bernie Sanders

#27. HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to keep them alive.

David Mixner

#28. People have pretty rubbery brains. They can take quite a bit of bouncing around. Come on. Band-Aids and tea. And answers. They're all right this way.

Joe Hill

#29. You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Molly Ivins

#30. The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Philip Emeagwali

#31. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

Yusuf Hamied

#32. Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#33. Doubt that there could ever be ... a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.

Immortal Technique

#34. The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

Barton Gellman

#35. To teach our children is a personal duty; we cannot delegate it to Sunday School Teachers, or other friendly aids, these can assist us, but cannot deliver us from the sacred obligation;

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#36. We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

Paul Farmer

#37. When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

Morgan Fairchild

#38. Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

Lee Daniels

#39. There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

Judith Light

#40. I'd much rather have AIDS than a baby ... They're not that different at all. They're both expensive, you have them for the rest of your life, they're constant reminders of the mistakes you've made and once you have them, you pretty much can only date other people who have them.

Donald Glover

#41. Who has declared that murder is more newsworthy than the heartwarming story of an elderly woman who delivers Meals-on-Wheels to local AIDS sufferers?

Kristin Hannah

#42. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?

Christina Engela

#43. Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.

Gore Vidal

#44. AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

Larry Kramer

#45. What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater.

Madeline Kahn

#46. I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

#47. Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions.

Serge Lang

#48. You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters ...

T. Rafael Cimino

#49. I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.

Yusuf Hamied

#50. We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

Chita Rivera

#51. I think racism is a bottom-line AIDS issue. And I think homophobia is a bottom-line AIDS issue, and sexism and class issues and all of this. I think that we are not going to solve the AIDS epidemic unless we deal with these issues, and vice versa.

Ann Northrop

#52. The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

Miriam Makeba

#53. HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

Margaret Chan

#54. I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

Bernadette Peters

#55. I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

Emma Thompson

#56. I think it would be funny if you died of full blown AIDS. then I can take a crap on your grave after they bury you.

Nickolaus Pacione

#57. I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#58. It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

Stephen D. Cox

#59. AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.

Richard Preston

#60. If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids

Jimmy Carr

#61. AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Sam Kinison

#62. It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

#63. For seven of the eight years he was president, Reagan would not say the AIDS word.

John Irving

#64. And now we shall also die of blindness, I mean, we shall die of blindness and cancer, of blindness and tuberculosis, of blindness and AIDS, of blindness and heart attacks, illnesses may differ from one person to another but what is really killing us now is blindness

Jose Saramago

#65. I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

Eric McCormack

#66. My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

Kanye West

#67. The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.

Paul Di Filippo

#68. If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

Meir Kahane

#69. I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Linda Evangelista

#70. Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#71. I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Christina Aguilera

#72. Ugh. This silence is going to make me sick at the stomach," she said finally. "I didn't tell you that I had AIDS, Dmitry. Please don't act like that.

Latrivia S. Nelson

#73. Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

Terry Zwigoff

#74. Putting a damp spoon back in the bowl is the tea-drinking equivalent of sharing a needle. And I did not want to end up with the tea-drinking equivalent of AIDS.

Alan Partridge

#75. The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.

Ryan White

#76. As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.

Gunter Blobel

#77. From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

Daphne Guinness

#78. How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.

Bill Gates

#79. When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

John F. Kerry

#80. It's important not to lose sight of the fact people of all sorts are still putting themselves at risk. It happens to straight and gay, single and married. I have never been comfortable thinking of AIDS as something that 'other people' get.

Brande Roderick

#81. Your blood reveal your most intimate secrets. Are you dying of leukimia or AIDS? Did you smoke cigarette or drink a glass of wine in the last few hours? Are you prozac because you're depressed, or Viagra because you can't get it up?

Tess Gerritsen

#82. It deals with so many different aspects of living in South Africa the racial issues of South Africans and Asians with poverty with the reality of children orphaned by AIDS the transition from village life to city life.

Laura Thielen

#83. All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

David Mixner

#84. It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

Bruce Davison

#85. There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa.

Sean Combs

#86. The person who helps you is the person who aids you in becoming independent and strong. Good teachers don't answer your questions, they ask you questions.

Frederick Lenz

#87. I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open

Jim Norton

#88. I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.

Rock Hudson

#89. I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

Pat Robertson

#90. There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.

Anthony Fauci

#91. And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

Kurt Loder

#92. Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.

Rory Kinnear

#93. When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.

Sarah Silverman

#94. I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

Steven Tyler

#95. If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us since sex itself - and with the longest punch line.

Robert Patrick

#96. Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.

Maurice Messegue

#97. I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

Magic Johnson

#98. Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.

Josh Ross

#99. God aids the valiant ... both to you and to me He will give the help needed.

Teresa Of Avila

#100. We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

Nelson Mandela