Latest Patch Adams Quotes from Interviews

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• All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

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  Kids, Giving, Messages

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• I am extremely intentional in making the environment around me playful and loving. I have great skill in that area.

  Patch Adams

  Skills, Environment, Areas

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.

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  Giving, Contact, Grows

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

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  People, Want, Stuff

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

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  People, Giver, Generous People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• I like giving. Doing something for somebody else feels good.

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  Giving, Feel Good, Feels

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

  Patch Adams

  Groups, Helping, Humans

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

• Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.

  Patch Adams

  Thinking, Too Late, Revolution

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

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  Men, Years, Humanity

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.

  Patch Adams

  Men, Thinking, Compassion

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

  Patch Adams

  Country, Sex, Children

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.

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  Encouragement, Writing, Healthy

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.

  Patch Adams

  Spiritual, Mean, Action

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• When I hear real faithful people - whether it's a real Christian, or a real Buddhist, or a real Muslim - I hear them use the language I use for a friend. So my metaphor for God is friend.

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  Christian, Buddhist, Real

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

  Patch Adams

  Spiritual, Political, Rage

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

  Patch Adams

  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au

• My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.

  Patch Adams

  Liars, Years, Fake

  Source: www.natureandhealth.com.au