Politics Quote by Chris Hedges

“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

— Jane Austen

Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the…

— Ben Jonson

“It raises my spleen more than anything.”

— Jane Austen

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,…

— William Congreve

“I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic…

— Abraham Verghese

“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.”

— Lauren Slater

“Consumptive patients, with lungs incompetent to perform the duties of lungs, people with defective hearts that break down under excitement of the circulation, people…

— Herbert Spencer

“What is it about our human nature that we feel the need to defend the choices we’ve made when it comes to our medical…

— Suzanne Somers

“More and more individuals, owing to their bloodless indolence, will aspire to be nothing at all--in order to become the public: that abstract whole…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“I should be arguing vehemently with doctors, demanding results, I should be surrounded by people who are bleeding and screaming and shocking one another…

— Dan Chaon

“The bureaucrats had gotten into a habit of solving every medical problem by building something so that a congressman could say, ‘Here’s what I…

— Charles Duhigg

Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

— Andrew Solomon