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Health Quotes by Ivan Illich
- The more time, toil, and sacrifice spent by a population in producing medicine as a commodity, the larger will be the by-product, namely, the fallacy…
- Health is not an objective condition which can be understood by the methods of natural science alone. It is rather a condition related to the…
- The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
- The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as an…
- The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal…
- Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick…
- Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying...…
- Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.
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- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
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- I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.' — Lauren Bacall
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann
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