Contagion Quotes - page 3

We can now understand the true reason for their condemnation and its severity. The authorities aren't suppressing a reprehensible practice or a crime. They are suppressing dissidence. ... Prohibition is a battle against a contagion of the spirit - against an opinion. (Octavio Paz)
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion. View quote
Victor Hugo
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. View quote
Charles Dickens
To comprehend the hysterical mass contagion that is the war on Trump it's essential to trace the contours of that other war, 'Operation Iraqi Freedom,' and the way it was peddled to the American public. View quote
Ilana Mercer
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world. View quote
William Shakespeare
War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can engulf states and peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The vitality of children is clean and honest. Their petty shortcomings derive, in ninety-nine out of a hundred instances, from their effete elders' pettiness. Contagion is a generational fact. But children can develop defenses against their elders' spiritual scurvy simply because they're new. View quote
Michael Bishop
If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another. View quote
Cyprian