Causes Quote by Ada Leverson

It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for…

— Hosea Ballou

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“You allow that we designate a disease as mortal when Nature is so severely attacked, and her strength so far exhausted, that she cannot…

— Charles William Eliot

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

— Charles Frazier

“The greatest disease of mankind is a lack of love for children, leading to their psychological and sometimes even physical abuse, which predisposes those…

— Bernie Seigel

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

— Democritus

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

— Erich Fromm

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

— Hosea Ballou

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

— Susan Sontag

“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the…

— Hans Zinsser

“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems…

— Donald Miller

“That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the…

— Charles Dickens