Larry Kramer Quotes

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

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

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

Global pandemics---whether naturally occurring or intentionally spread---pose a greater threat than most man-made weapons of mass destruction.

If the French delirium is not properly repressed, it may be more or less fatal to the heart of Europe for the pestilential air must inevitably ravage and destroy everything it approaches.