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Health Quotes by Paul Farmer
- lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics…
- I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure…
- If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
- Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp…
- But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to…
- The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're…
- We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in…
- If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should…
- You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want…
- I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.
- The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
- What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary…
- So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have…
More Health Quotes
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- 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
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- 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
- Few people wear out before their time. Mostly they rust out, worry out, run out - spill out. A machine must have… — George Matthew Adams
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what… — Francis Bacon