Disease Quotes

2336 Disease quotes by 1517 unique authors

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese,… — Tom Harkin
As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the… — Helen Caldicott
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the… — William J. Clinton
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. — Chuck Palahniuk
The last major childhood disease remains and it's the worst of them all: nuclear war. — Beverly Sills
In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not… — Mahbub ul Haq
Peace is not merely the absence of warfare, any more than true health is simply the absence of disease. Nor is peace simply a quiet… — Anodea Judith
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will… — Leo Tolstoy
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom. It would be… — Quentin Crisp
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them. — James Goldsmith
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. — John Tillotson
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants… — James Cook
People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.… — Unknown Author
Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development. — Michael Fox
The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear… — James Gunn
Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease. — Prince Philip
What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system, the insurance companies,… — Keith Olbermann

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