Social Contagion Quotes

“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.”
― Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity

“The virus needed certain conditions in which to grow; its victims had to be willing to believe; they had to want, on some level, maybe even unbeknownst to themselves, to do what the virus would tell them to do. And they had to be greedy: for profit, for importance, for revenge, for entertainment, for adventure. Only the greedy could be effectively conned. One never read of en masters being taken in by scams. They didn’t crave anything, and, therefore, con artists couldn’t set the hook.”
― Nevada Barr, Winter Study

“There's some really interesting research that shows that action towards climate change in fact doesn't address climate anxiety, it doesn't alleviate our sense of despair about climate change, that action in a collective is the essential thing. And so there's a sort of misnomer that happens. There's a misunderstanding that if we do some actions, we'll feel better. But in fact, it's the collective part that makes us feel better, and less so the action itself. And so the collective makes us feel efficacious, the collective has that social contagion factor of hope and joy and pleasure.”
― Sarah Jaquette Ray