Vaccinations Quotes - Page 3

• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Epidemics, Credit, Eczema

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• It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Cutting, Eugenics, Waiting

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

  Harris L Coulter

  Drinking, Aqueducts, Autism

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• 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

  Flu Vaccine, Usa, Vaccines

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• Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination

  Viera Scheibner

  Years, Names, Issues

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• The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Autism, Doe

  "How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results". www.scientificamerican.com. August 01, 2008.

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• Esquire's all about mommy issues now. Breastfeeding, vaccinations, playdate etiquette.

  Vera Farmiga

  Issues, Breastfeeding, Etiquette

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?

  Bill Maher

  Government, People, Choices

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• First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny Love, First Love, Love Is

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• 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

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

  Children, Home, Russia

  "Why the cello is a hero". Interview With Julian Lloyd Webber, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 28, 2004.

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• I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.

  Rick Rollens

  Country, Children, Father

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• 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

  Views, Vaccines, Effectiveness

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• 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

  Dog, Men, Vaccines

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

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• It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fever, Way, Should

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.137, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Kids, Dying

  "Bill Gates: Vaccine-autism link 'an absolute lie'". Interview with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2011.

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