Social Contagion Quotes

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you've got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.

None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.

Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

Once one news organization goes with it, it's tough to keep the lid on [a rumor].

Yawns are hard to refute.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

Don't catch the bad and infectious attitudes of others.

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

The word is now a virus.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

Crime is contagious.

If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.