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Medicine 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…
- The medical establishment has become the major threat to health.
- 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…
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- If we want to kill Obamacare and we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election! — Michele Bachmann
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister
- A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. — George Matthew Adams
- To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher
- All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue. — Konrad Adenauer
- The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. — Josh Billings