If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible. Boris Sidis
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. Carl Jung
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. Malcolm Gladwell
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. Jill Lepore
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. Marvin Olasky
Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc. Jill Lepore