Community Quote by William Wilberforce

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

— C. S. Lewis

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

— James Martineau

Conformity to a sick society is to be sick.

— Richard J. Foster

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

— Aneurin Bevan

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low.

— William Shakespeare

“From time immemorial, healthy people have held sick people hostage…I believe hostage-holding of the sick is immoral, fundamentally unethical, and needs to be stopped.”

— Hulda Regehr Clark

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. We have lost it, or we have never had…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If a culture treats a particular illness with compassion and enlightened understanding, then sickness can be seen as a challenge, as a healing crisis…

— Ken Wilber

“On a political sickbed a people is usually rejuvenated and rediscovers its spirit, after having gradually lost it in seeking and preserving power. Culture…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

— Henrik Ibsen

But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an epidemic affecting…

— Gordon B. Hinckley