Aids Quotes · Page 21

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card…

— Bill Gates

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

— Ovid

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who…

— Rachel Maddow

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

— Ryan Murphy

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

Every rein aid must be preceded by an action of the torso. Otherwise you only address the horse's head.

— Nuno Oliveira

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

— Nate Mendel

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if…

— Nina Totenberg

As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness…

— Stephen Fry

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with…

— Newt Gingrich

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many…

— Catherine Bertini

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific…

— Kay Granger

Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or…

— Laura Riding

Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin.…

— Jeff Corwin

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was…

— Seth Berkley

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness…

— Kenneth Cole

I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936.…

— Murray Bookchin

If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States,…

— Dambisa Moyo

In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our…

— Anonymous

And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and…

— Frederick Buechner

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated…

— Benjamin Franklin

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

— Martin Luther

Live Aid was a baby Woodstock, a child of Woodstock, which I call Globalstock.

— Richie Havens

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

— Sean Strub

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

— Hillary Clinton

Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

— Dennis Miller

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

— Joe Biden

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as…

— Peter Kropotkin

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

— Edmund White

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

— Anonymous

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve…

— George Iles

... I love walking my feet off. Gimme a map and a box of Band-Aids and I'm all set!

— Fran Drescher

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

— Nicholas Eberstadt

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't…

— William Faulkner

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

— Chris Hughes

The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.

— Tom Hanks

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

— Lucretius