Complicated Quote by William Graham Sumner

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

— Eric Hoffer

We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.

— James B. Utt

“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems…

— Donald Miller

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions…

— Noam Chomsky

A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills

— Amiri Baraka

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

— Susan Sontag

“The only cure for all social ills in our world today is the discovery and creation of more and more ordinary everyday heroes.”

— Jeroninio Almeida

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but…

— Francis Collins

We have a system that is deeply narcissistic - the consumer sort of capitalist culture. It's all about me and now and what do…

— Gail Bradbrook

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how…

— Claudia Rankine

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

— William Jennings Bryan

...In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.

— Paul Farmer