This collection holds 158 epidemic quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Macklemore, Adam Cohen and George Bernard Shaw.

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Bullying is a national epidemic.

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

One of the epidemics in our industry is the abuse of power.

The face of America's eviction epidemic is a mom with kids.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Kids need other kids, they need school. But we also don't need an epidemic.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.

There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

Exercise is essential for good health. But we can't exercise our way out of the obesity epidemic.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

As a mom, grandma and governor of Iowa, I believe we have an opportunity and a responsibility to combat the teen vaping epidemic.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.

I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with epidemics.

If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

There are so many people getting dementia. It is like an epidemic now. It is a terrible disease because once you get it, your life changes completely.

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