Age Quote by G. Stanley Hall

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

— William Ralph Inge

It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to…

— Rene Dubos

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Diseases don’t ruin lives just because they rot off noses. They destroy people if the rest of society isolates them and treats them as…

— Jennifer Wright

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

— Seneca the Younger

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many…

— Robert A. Burton

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

— Charles Frazier

Death is better than disease.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for…

— R. G. Collingwood

civilization is a transient sickness.

— Robinson Jeffers

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of…

— Bernie Siegel M.D