Paul Farmer

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a…

— Paul Farmer

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

— Paul Farmer

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you…

— Paul Farmer

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

— Paul Farmer

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word,…

— Paul Farmer

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine…

— Paul Farmer

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into…

— Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

— Paul Farmer

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

— Paul Farmer

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think…

— Paul Farmer

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

— Paul Farmer

I'm not an austere person.

— Paul Farmer

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

— Paul Farmer

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

— Paul Farmer

I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the…

— Paul Farmer

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from…

— Paul Farmer

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

— Paul Farmer

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

— Paul Farmer

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning…

— Paul Farmer

WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a…

— Paul Farmer

I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that.

— Paul Farmer

Equity is the only acceptable goal

— Paul Farmer

Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now…

— Paul Farmer

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.

— Paul Farmer

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

— Paul Farmer