Nancy Gibbs

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

American Journalist

Thomas Paine

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

English Activist

Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

American Novelist

Tony Blair

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

English Statesman

Emmanuel Macron

Even if the Brits decide to remain, we will have to avoid a contagion on other countries.

French Politician

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Swiss Philosopher

Lawrence Summers

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

American Economist

Marianne Moore

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

American Poet

Eula Biss

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

American Writer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

American President

The term often implies negative influence, especially in social or ideological contexts.

Negative Connotation

It's used metaphorically to describe the rapid spread of ideas or behaviors.

Metaphorical Use

In non-medical contexts, 'contagion' is often figurative, not literal.

Figurative Speech

Commonly used in a medical setting to discuss how diseases spread.

Medical Context

Contagion can occur through both direct contact and indirect means, such as surfaces.

Direct/Indirect

Used to express the degree of risk for spreading disease in various situations.

Risk Awareness

Some diseases classified as a contagion are very communicable or infectious.

Highly Communicable

Public health strategies often aim to contain or control the spread of contagions.

Containment Efforts

 She left. And if you know anything about rural India, you'll know that's an unspeakably courageous thing to do. But not just that. She got her toilet, and now she goes around all the other villages in India persuading other women to do the same thing. It's what I call social contagion, and it's really powerful

Rose George: Let's talk...

 And I said, "Everywhere else in the world, that's normal human behavior." And so there's a very instinctive way in which we briefly transmit emotions to each other. And, in fact, emotional contagion can be broader still. Like we could have punctuated expressions of anger, as in riots.

Nicholas Christakis: The...

 That actually is the true nature of the distribution of humor when you don't have the contagion of humor. Humor is a type of entertainment. All entertainment contains a little frisson of danger, something that might happen wrong, and yet we like it when there's protection.

Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...

 these viruses can rapidly spread and he described often wildlife markets that are selling you know live animals and bush meat are almost cauldrons of contagion you have many different species together in the same place many of these animals are sick many of these

COVID-19, Humans, and...

 an insecticide treated bed net and you can teach someone to use them. And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them, but they have these great contagion benefits. If half of a community sleeps under a net, the other half also benefits

Esther Duflo: Social...

 then, over the next decade, a nationwide effort that ultimately helped topple Poland's communist government. Getting early wins sets in motion a positive feedback loop, a contagion, a belief, a motivation. It requires pressuring policymakers,

How to turn protest into...

 representation or i may say the equally hapless levels of women at the peace table virtually that has not improved over the last decade and above all the ghastly contagion of rape and sexual violence in so many societies indeed

Advocating for gender...

 and also just to the contagion of the idea of freedom, you know. If women spend nine months being pregnant and caring for a child, why isn't it that men are responsible for spending that much more than half the time

To future generations of...

 emissions go up and warm the planet when you look at our maps our results are showing that it's it's it's accelerating it almost looks like a contagion you know it looks like a disease across the planet i mean the

The Tragedy Of...

 and some of them were really very helpful for my parents. Some of them were really afraid of contagion, and they wouldn't even walk in front of our house. They would literally walk across the street.