Leprosy Quotes
34 quotes by 25 authors
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities.…
— Mother Teresa
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest…
— Mother Teresa
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Her skin was white as leprosy.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they are not reviled, nor are…
— Princess Diana
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Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
— Stanley Norman Cohen
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Hansen’s diseaseâ€â€”that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were…
— Lou Dobbs
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I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was…
— Baba Amte
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Joy is more infectious than leprosy
— Baba Amte
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A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the…
— Mother Teresa
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Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.
— Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one that he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as…
— Halldór Laxness
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A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die…
— Sheryl Sandberg
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The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
— Pope Francis
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor…
— Aleister Crowley
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
— Mother Teresa
Who Wrote These Leprosy Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 34 Leprosy Quotes as follows: