Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles. . . . They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.
Where does contagion end and art begin?
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
