Aids Quotes - Page 4

• To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with my AIDS work, the human rights stuff for the gay and lesbian community and the speaking I do

  Judith Light

  Mean, Gay, Rights

  6 Copy quote

• The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Order, African Union

  56 Copy quote

• We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.

  Larry Kramer

  Country, Crazy, War

  The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.

  Kurt Loder

  Country, Thinking, Drug Use

  8 Copy quote

• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Life And Death, Humanity, Survival

  51 Copy quote

• Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness

  Nelson Mandela

  Giving, Hiv, Way

  "Mandela at Sunset" by Andrew Meldrum, progressive.org. October 2007.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• AIDS destroys families, decimates communities and, particularly in the poorest areas of the world, threatens to destabilize the social, cultural, and economic fabric of entire nations.

  David Saperstein

  Community, Fabric, World

  6 Copy quote

• I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

  Richard Stearns

  Children, Believe, Our Generation

  14 Copy quote

• Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Europe, America, Hiv

  45 Copy quote

• It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.

  Bruce Davison

  People, Healthy, Suffering

  8 Copy quote

• Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There are no such documents.

  Kary Mullis

  Hiv, Causes, Facts

  Spin Magazine, Volume 10, No. 4, 1994.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

  Norman Angell

  People, Evidence, Humans

  14 Copy quote

• Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

  Terry Zwigoff

  People, Hiv, Stories

  6 Copy quote

• AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

  Ice T

  Thinking, Scary, Serious

  8 Copy quote

• The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Quilts, Humor

  57 Copy quote

• My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

  Ryan White

  Years, Names, White

  50 Copy quote

• The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?

  Kofi Annan

  Fighting, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

  32 Copy quote

• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fighting, Reality, Pandemics

  12 Copy quote

• Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

  Ralph Fiennes

  Fighting, Keys, People

  21 Copy quote

• It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sex, Ignorance, People

  FaceBook post by Elizabeth Taylor from Dec 01, 2013

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

  Princess Diana

  Kissing, Hands, People

  54 Copy quote

• We live in a completely interdependent world, which simply means we can not escape each other. How we respond to AIDS depends, in part, on whether we understand this interdependence. It is not someone else's problem. This is everybody's problem.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, Hiv, Aids Day

  "Fighting Stigma: Why the Depiction of Illness Matters" by David M. Kirby, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 15, 2016.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Migration, Stuff

  Heavy Metal Interview, April 1982.

  91 Copy quote

  Show source

• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Sex, Character, Play

  7 Copy quote

• If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

  Meir Kahane

  Political, Doe, Hiv

  23 Copy quote