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Immune Quotes

On resistance, defense, and adapting under pressure.

These quotes use 'immune' both literally, describing how the body's Disease-fighting system changes across a lifetime, and figuratively, describing places or people that seem untouched by a problem.

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

Quotes by William Bratton

In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me...

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.

Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Quotes by Steven Cojocaru

Body Quotes

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

Quotes by Richard Shelby

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Quotes by Reuven Rivlin

The need to deal with pathogens has driven the evolution of the vertebrate immune system, so it should not be surprising that experiments with infectious agents have often illuminated key elements of the underlying mechanisms.

Quotes by Peter C. Doherty

Criticism Quotes

Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

Quotes by Paul Stamets

Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer...

Quotes by Paul Stamets

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Quotes by Patrick J. Kennedy

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

If Congress can strip the federal courts of jurisdiction over school prayer cases, there is no provision in the Constitution immune from congressional tampering.

Quotes by Max Baucus

Disease Quotes

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Quotes by Martin Lawrence

A carrier with a venereal disease can have many partners, but only those whose mental and physical immune systems are weak will be susceptible to it.

Quotes by Louise L. Hay

Yes, we are looking into gene therapies for immune cells to target senescent cells.

Quotes by Liz Parrish

We are looking at gene therapies to Reverse Atherosclerosis, Regenerate muscles and tissue, Improve cell signaling, Clear misfolded Proteins, Rejuvenate the immune System, Clear Senescent Cells, and Treat Monogenic Diseases.

Quotes by Liz Parrish

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

Quotes by Leroy Hood

Diseases Quotes

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Quotes by Lawrence M. Krauss

Frequently Asked Questions

What senses of "immune" show up in these quotes?
These quotes cover both the medical meaning of immune—resistance within the body—and the figurative sense of being unaffected by criticism, crime, or a widespread problem.
Is there a quote about the immune system specifically?
Yes, one quote discusses a discovery that genes tied to the immune system can shift over the course of a person's life, contrary to earlier assumptions.
What does a quote say about drug problems spreading regionally?
One quote describes a stimulant problem spreading through both urban and rural areas, noting that not a single region has escaped the impact.
How does one quote describe elite athletes and pressure?
Yes, one quote observes that top players eventually stop reacting to defensive pressure the way less experienced players do.
Where can I find more quotes about the body or disease?
The Body quotes page and the Disease quotes page cover related medical themes.

Other lines reflect on crime prevention and drug epidemics that spare no region, as well as elite athletes who grow immune to opposing pressure. See our Body and Criticism quotes for related reading.