Social Contagion Quotes

#1. Prison, a social protection? What monstrous mind ever conceived such an idea? Just as well say that health can be promoted by a widespread contagion!

Emma Goldman

#2. The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

George P. Shultz

#3. Choosing to stand by while people kill each other is also an action,

James S.A. Corey

#4. We'd given up trying to fool anyone, even ourselves.

Paula McLain

#5. Your spirit must be strong to survive a shock.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.

Rob Roberge

#7. You shouldn't do that. Not to your child. You should-carry your own burdens.

Cassandra Clare

#8. Your network is your destiny, a reality backed up by many studies in the newly emergent fields of social networking and social contagion theory. We are the people we interact with.

Keith Ferrazzi

#9. A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we've seen with the antivaccination movement.

Emily Matchar

#10. Much is not dared because it seems hard; much seems hard only because it is not dared.

Wenzel Anton Kaunitz-Rietberg

#11. Uh, my lord, I am not actually food. You do realize this, yes?

Gail Carriger

#12. Never give up.' This is not sound advice, it is bad advice. You must give up when there is no point in continuing. Then begin a new course. There is no greater failure than not changing course when the time is right to do so.

Chloe Thurlow

#13. A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror.

Wilhelm Steinitz

#14. I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#15. For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

John Le Carre

#16. Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.

Squeak Carnwath

#17. It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

Jenny Holzer

#18. I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#19. You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

Clarence Francis

#20. The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

Ernst Junger

#21. War is a total social phenomenon. In this respect, Clausewitz's analysis is a precursor of Durkheim's sociology. Clausewitz has things to teach us about "mass" violence and contagion.

Rene Girard