Vaccines Quotes:

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Peace, Humor, Vaccines

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Vaccines, Stupidity

I have studied the effects of our new lots of polio vaccine in 100 adult volunteers and during the next few days shall give it to my wife and 2 children as well as to our neighbors and their children.

- Albert Sabin

topic: Children, Vaccines, Volunteer, Polio Vaccine

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Eggs, Vaccines, Self Improvement

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

- Aneurin Bevan

topic: Men, Vaccines, Forget, Rich Man

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Children, Vaccines, Remember

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Impact, Epidemics, Vaccines

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Vaccines, Ebola, Fields, Ebola Virus

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Vaccines, Two, Different

Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

- Archie Kalokerinos

topic: Children, Vaccines, Fever, Antibiotics, Scarlet

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. The worst vaccine of all is the whooping cough vaccine... it is responsible for a lot of deaths and for a lot of infants suffering irreversible brain damage. In susceptible infants, it knocks their immune systems about, leading to irreparable brain damage, or severe attacks or even deaths from diseases like pneumonia or gastro-enteritis and so on.

- Archie Kalokerinos

topic: Vaccines, Pneumonia, Brain, Irreversible, Whooping Cough

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

- Archie Kalokerinos

topic: Vaccines, Routine, Achieve

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

- Aslan Maskhadov

topic: Vaccines, Long, Als, Chechnya, Al Qaeda

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Running, Organization, Vaccines

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

- Bernard Rimland

topic: Children, Japan, Vaccines, Autistic Children, Autistic

They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly!

- Bernard Rimland

topic: Vaccines, Autism, Rose

I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job.

- Bill Gates

topic: Jobs, Vaccines, People, Warren Buffet

Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Fighting, Vaccines, Balance, Infection

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

- Billy Corgan

topic: Vaccines, Behinds

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

- Chief Joseph

topic: Men, Vaccines, White

[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV

- Colin Blakemore

topic: Animal, Vaccines, Monkeys

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

- Corbin Bernsen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Vaccines, Space, Penicillin

Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

- Dan Brown

topic: Vaccines, Medicine, Space, Airbags

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

- Dan Burton

topic: Vaccines, Drug, Safe, Additives, Dental

We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.

- Dan Burton

source: Dan Burton's Opening Statement during Congressional Hearing "The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism", www.gpo.gov. June 19, 2002.

topic: Children, Believe, Vaccines, Investigators

Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe.

- David Oshinsky

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Children, Vaccines, Tragedy, Measles

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

- Democritus

topic: Life, Men, Vaccines

So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.

- Donald Kennedy

topic: Vaccines, Medicine, Drug, Confronting

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Freedom, Patriotic, Vaccines, Medical Care, Lacking Something

Education is a vaccine for violence.

- Edward James Olmos

source: "'Education is the Vaccine for Violence' - Edward James Olmos". foreignpolicyblogs.com. April 04, 2008.

topic: Education, Vaccines, Violence

While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.

- Edward Jenner

topic: Discovery, Vaccines, Joy, Destined, Smallpox

If you Google some sites about the link between vaccines and autism, you can very quickly find that Google is repeating back to you your view about whether that link exists and not what scientists know, which is that there isn't a link between vaccines and autism. It's a feedback loop that's invisible.

- Eli Pariser

topic: Vaccines, Views, Autism

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

topic: Drama, Vaccines, Drug

Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

source: "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

topic: Vaccines, Childhood, Dollars, Vaccinations

Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

- Ezekiel Emanuel

source: "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

topic: Children, Vaccines, Medicine, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Wall, Artist, Vaccines, Custard

I can see no hope at present of such a vaccine being produced... I have adopted a frankly defeatist attitude towards the problem of poliomyelitis and I hope that future developments will prove me wrong... No means of controlling poliomyelitis is at present visible.

- Frank Macfarlane Burnet

source: "Proceedings of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians", vol. 4-6, "Some aspects of the epidemiology of poliomyelitis", 1949.

topic: Attitude, Mean, Vaccines, Prove Me Wrong, Future Development

I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Country, Vaccines, Medicine, Infectious Diseases

After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

- Harris L Coulter

topic: Baby, Eggs, Vaccines, Pediatrician, Being Broken

I would not go so far as to say that vaccination has never saved a person from smallpox. It is a matter of record that thousands of the victims of this superstitious rite have been saved from smallpox by the immunizing potency of death. But it is a fact that the official statistics of England and Wales show unmistakably that, while vaccination has killed ten times more people than smallpox, there has been a decrease in smallpox concomitant with the decrease in vaccination. . . It might be appropriately asked, in the words of the Vaccination Inquirer

- Herbert M. Shelton

topic: Vaccines, People, Records, Inquirers, Smallpox

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.

- Irwin Redlener

topic: Children, Vaccines, Autism

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

- Jack Paar

source: JACK PAAR (1965). “THREE ON A RUSH”

topic: Fun, Vaccines, People

Thimerosal is commonly used as an antiseptic/preservative in vaccines in the range of 1:10,000 to 1:20,000. Welsh's and Hunter's 1940 findings, applied to current thimerosal use in vaccines, lead to the conclusion that thimerosal completely inhibits phagocytosis in blood, one of the body's most vital immune defenses!

- Jamie Murphy

topic: Blood, Vaccines, Hunters, Welsh

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

- Jeffrey Kluger

topic: Simple, Vaccines, Parent, Save A Life

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the U.S. vaccine schedule.

- Jenny McCarthy

source: "Who’s Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2010.

topic: Vaccines, Years, Ideas, Crackpots

If you give us a safe vaccine, we'll use it. It shouldn't be polio versus autism.

- Jenny McCarthy

source: "Jenny McCarthy on Autism and Vaccines". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 1, 2009.

topic: Vaccines, Giving, Autism, Jenny, Polio

Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.

- Jenny McCarthy

topic: Thinking, Vaccines, Autism

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

- Jenny McCarthy

topic: Believe, Vaccines, Disease, Jenny

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

- Jenny McCarthy

topic: Vaccines, Autism, Delay

Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida - and he recovered. And the reason the medical community has such a hard time with this is because we are treating and healing a vaccine injury ... this is truly a revolution.

- Jenny McCarthy

source: "16 Things Jenny McCarthy Has Actually Said" by Aly Weisman, www.businessinsider.com. July 15, 2013.

topic: Healing, Hard Times, Vaccines, Medical Treatment, Bios

When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Animal, Land, Vaccines, Pharmaceutical, Foraging

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

- Jim Carrey

topic: Fall, Years, Vaccines

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

- John Green

topic: Real, Hero, Vaccines

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

- John Henry Jowett

topic: Happiness, Gratitude, Vaccines, You Make Me Happy, Grumbling

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.

- Jon Corzine

topic: Years, Vaccines, Risk, Flu Vaccine

At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but its true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests

- Jon Rappoport

topic: Men, Careers, Vaccines, Long Conversations, Depopulation

[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

- Jonas Salk

topic: Humility, Vaccines, People, Polio

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

- Jonas Salk

topic: Science, Vaccines, Safety, Polio, Polio Vaccine

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

- Larry Craig

topic: Simple, Fda, Vaccines, Importation, Simple Truths

At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.

- Laurie Garrett

topic: Fashion, Vaccines, People

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

- Laurie Garrett

source: "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

topic: Vaccines, Battle, Pandemics, Genetic Mutation

The vaccinations are not working, and they are dangerous.. We should be working with nature.

- Lendon Smith

topic: Vaccines, Should, Dangerous, Vaccinations

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

- Lendon Smith

topic: Children, Vaccines, Suffering, Deficiency

The greatest lie ever told is that vaccines are safe and effective.

- Leonard Horowitz

topic: Lying, Vaccines, Safe

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Thinking, Vaccines, Goal, Infection

My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Vaccines, People, Population, Efficacy, Infection

The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Ideas, Vaccines, Viruses, Viral

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

- Luc Montagnier

topic: Vaccines, Safety, Needs

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Vaccines, Language

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Children, Vaccines

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Children, Vaccines, Looks, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Inspiring, Children, Vaccines

You can't save kids just with vaccines.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Kids, Vaccines

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Years, Vaccines, Flu, Vaccinations, Immunity

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

- Michael Specter

source: Source: www.newyorker.com

topic: Vaccines, Sides, Side Effects

When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through what he endured. I support AmFAR which provides funds for cutting edge AIDS research so we can find a vaccine and a cure.

- Natasha Richardson

topic: Father, Cutting, Vaccines, Father Died

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Creativity, Vaccines, Fire, Printing Press, Polio

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

- Nina Simone

topic: Thinking, Vaccines, Forever

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Vaccines, Natural, Smallpox

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Vaccines, Given, Makers, Money Maker

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Vaccines, Flu, Flu Vaccine

Physicians who care for adults generally don't think about vaccines as much as pediatricians do, and adults think of vaccines as a kid thing.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Kids, Thinking, Vaccines, Pediatrician

What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Vaccines, Dollars, Ears, Meningitis

People are reticent to give a newborn the hepatitis B vaccine and often delay it.

- Paul A. Offit

source: Source: www.nytimes.com

topic: Vaccines, People, Giving, Hepatitis

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what will happen in the interim.

- Paul Farmer

topic: Thinking, Vaccines, Years, Interim, Short Term Thinking

The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

- Philip Emeagwali

topic: Vaccines, Challenges, Hiv, Hiv Aids

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Men, Vaccines, Needs

I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines,

- Rand Paul

topic: Children, Talking, Vaccines, Mental Disorder

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

- Richard Neal

topic: Party, Vaccines, Republican

In this article we begin to address the subject of vaccinosis, the general name for chronic dis-ease caused by vaccines. For some readers the very idea that vaccines are anything but wonderful and life-saving may come as a surprise, and it's not a very pleasant one. After all, the general population pictures vaccines as one of modern medicine's best and brightest moments, saving literally millions from the scourge of diseases like poliomyelitis and smallpox.

- Richard Pitcairn

topic: Names, Ideas, Vaccines, Life Saving, Smallpox

Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.

- Rick Rollens

topic: Cancer, Vaccines, Autism, Public Health, Tobacco Industry

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Men, Vaccines, Rich

Novel technologies for delivering .. vaccines can certainly find a market if they are more effective, less costly, less invasive or more convenient to use than the alternatives.

- Robert J. Eaton

topic: Technology, Vaccines, Alternatives

In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.

- Robert Koch

topic: Views, Vaccines, Effectiveness, Side Effects

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

- Samora Machel

source: Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

topic: Dog, Men, Vaccines, Medical Care

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

- Sarah Chalke

source: Source: www.popsugar.com

topic: Vaccines, Years, Flu, Flu Vaccine

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

- Sarah Vowell

source: Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

topic: War, Ideas, Vaccines, Polio, Polio Vaccine

Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

- Sean Stephenson

source: FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011

topic: Self Esteem, Positivity, Vaccines

The best vaccine imaginable is only valuable to the extent we get it to everyone who needs it.

- Seth Berkley

topic: Vaccines, Needs, Healthcare

In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough.

- Viera Scheibner

topic: Usa, Vaccines, Three, Incidence, Whooping Cough

The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

- Viera Scheibner

topic: Country, Vaccines, People, Free Country, Vested Interests

Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.

- Viera Scheibner

topic: Men, Vaccines, Disease, Polio, Polio Vaccine

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.

- Walter Hadwen

topic: Thinking, Views, Vaccines, Pasteur, Vaccinations

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

- William Foege

topic: Vaccines

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

- Holly Sklar

topic: Drinking, School, Vaccines, Public Health, Safe Drinking

When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio.

- Laurie Glimcher

source: Source: to.pbs.org

topic: Cancer, Thinking, Vaccines, Hepatitis

Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.

- Laurie Glimcher

source: Source: to.pbs.org

topic: Cancer, Cells, Vaccines, Tumors, Checkpoints

You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Vaccines, May, Rich

The only kinds of ways we have to deal with viruses are old school, so vaccines for example are very effective, but the first vaccines were invented in the 1700's, so we're talking about technology that is over 200 years-old.

- Carl Zimmer

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Old School, Technology, Vaccines

There’s a passage that I love in Romans 1. … [I]t talks about homosexuality and it says that they will receive in their bodies the penalties of their behavior. … The Bible [is] right every time … and that’s why AIDS has been something they haven’t discovered a cure for or a vaccine for. … And that goes to what God says, ‘Hey you’re going to bear in your body the consequences of this homosexual behavior.’

- David Barton

topic: Vaccines, Hey, Body, Hey You, Your Body

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

- Romano Prodi

topic: Vaccines, Rich, Poor, Young And Old, North And South

For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.

- Seth Berkley

source: "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Children, Cutting, Vaccines, Medical Treatment

The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

- Seth Berkley

source: "Vaccines: The Biggest Bang for the Buck in Global Health" by Seth Berkley, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2011.

topic: Successful, Vaccines, Bucks, Global Health, Return On Investment

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

- Shelby Steele

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Vaccines, People, Moral

As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

- Sylvia Mathews Burwell

source: "US agency offers legal immunity to Ebola vaccine makers". www.foxnews.com. December 10, 2014.

topic: Epidemics, Ebola, Vaccines, West Africa, Global Community

After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

- Juan Enriquez

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Mean, Vaccines, Eggs, Flu Vaccine

Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; they’re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clots—conditions that aren’t caused by vaccines—safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.

- Paul A. Offit

topic: Heart, Blood, Vaccines, Learning Disability, Multiple Sclerosis

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Mcdonalds, Vaccines, Judging

Other than vaccines and finding a cure, most funding goes toward putting people on treatment. That's completely valid and I understand that, but it's never how we're going to stop AIDS.

- Charlize Theron

source: Source: www.cnn.com

topic: Vaccines, People, Aids

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Vaccines, People, Rich

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

- Friedrich Schiller

topic: Vaccines, Literature, World

There is no evidence, that I am aware of, that points to a link between vaccines and developmental disability.

- Jill Stein

source: "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

topic: Vaccines, Developmental Disabilities, Links

Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.

- Jill Stein

source: "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

topic: Years, Vaccines, Movement

There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine.

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Education, Vaccines, Dumb, Dumb Ass

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

topic: Vaccines, Effort, Action, Infallible

I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all.

- Joan Robinson

topic: Cancer, Vaccines, Risk, Cervical Cancer

If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.

- Joe Biden

source: Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

topic: Cancer, Vaccines, Cells, Genome, Genomics

One area of study that still needs to be done is the kind of autism where kids have speech and they lose it. Some parents say it's happened right after vaccines. That group needs to be studied separately from others.

- Temple Grandin

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Kids, Vaccines, Autism

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Doctors, Vegetarianism, Vaccines, Butchers, Vaccinations

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

- John le Carre

topic: Country, Vaccines, Systematic, Medical Profession, Vaccinations

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

- Anthony S. Fauci

source: "Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are 'Almost Nonmeasurable'". "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2015.

topic: Children, Vaccines, Remember, Polio, Whooping Cough

Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.

- David Letterman

topic: Ebola, Vaccines, Mountain, Doritos, Mountain Dew

There is so much in this world to be skeptical about if you want to be a skeptical a**hole. I'm kind of a skeptical a**hole. But not about vaccines, that's just not one of them.

- Greg Graffin

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Vaccines, World, Want

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Men, Views, Vaccines

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

- Melinda Gates

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Children, Years, Vaccines, Bangladesh, Family Planning

All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Vaccines, Always Trying, Differences, Outbreaks

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Children, Vaccines, Space, Family Planning

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Running, Vaccines, Long, Family Planning, Vaccinations

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: "Political speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll".

topic: Men, Vaccines, Rich, Rich Man

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

- Meryl Streep

topic: Vaccines, Fields, Actresses

Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example...When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.

- Michael Moore

topic: Government, Vaccines, Childhood, Vaccinations, Expenditures

There's very little that shocks me because I consider life a miracle so I guess what shocks me is that life exists. How the hell did we get here? What shocks me is that bacteria alter their genes and resist antibiotics and viruses resist vaccines.

- Bernie Siegel

source: Source: theindiespiritualist.com

topic: Vaccines, Miracle, Viruses

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

- Bill Gates

topic: Epidemics, Vaccines, Would Be, Usage

There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.121, Delacorte Press

topic: Vaccines, Black, Birth, Highlander, Immortal Highlander

Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.

- Rona Ambrose

topic: Fighting, Class, Vaccines

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

topic: Art, Memories, Vaccines, Buoys

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Ignorance, Vaccines, World, Charlatans, Science Literacy

Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Ignorance, Vaccines, Intellectual, Charlatans

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

- Orison Swett Marden

source: Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.816, e-artnow

topic: Money, Men, Vaccines

I was pretty dorky, but there are tiers of dorkdom and I always had friends, though they were equally dorky. I was one of those kids who contracted cooties in the second grade and then had cooties, because there wasn't a vaccine for it. When I was around people, though, I generally wanted to make them laugh. I told a lot of stories.

- Sloane Crosley

source: "Sloane Crosley on rubber animals and seeing through celebrity crushes". Interview with Ryan Vlastelica, www.avclub.com. October 1, 2015.

topic: Kids, Vaccines, People, Cooties, Dorky