Disease Quotes - Page 18

• I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.

  Ninian Smart

  Self, Europe, United States

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

  David Brooks

  Art, Commitment, People

  David Brooks (2015). “The Road to Character”, p.109, Random House

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• There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ā ā kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Yoga, Medicine, Sick

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• Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

  Hannah Arendt

  Anger, Mean, Earthquakes

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth.

  David C. Coates

  Laughter, Animal, Men

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• the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.

  Estelle Ramey

  Women, Drama, Blood

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• From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art and cleverness before common sense; from treating patients as cases; and from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.

  Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

  Wisdom, Art, Prayer

  British Medical Journal 1: 671 (1953)

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• Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

  Pliny the Elder

  Simple, Meat, Sauce

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• The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social disease of our country; I call it Pentagonorrhea.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Country, Dollars, Social

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Oil, Water, Evil

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• Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Spring, Sadness, Thinking

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• Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Travel, Recovery, Age

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.1360, Tuttle Publishing

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• But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.

  Esther Hicks

  Determination, Healing, Feel Good

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• A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?

  Maud Younger

  Tired, Roots, Evil

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• by and by, the cause of my disease
  Gives me a pang that inwardly doth sting,
  When that I think what grief it is again
  To live and lack the thing should rid my pain.

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  1557 'Alas! so all things now do hold their peace'.

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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• Reports to the Surgeon General represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate - are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Responsibility, Epidemics

  "The Hoover Policies". Book by Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur N. Hyde, 1937.

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• We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Errors, Discovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Imperfection, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Health, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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• Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Madness, Caught, Contagious

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• They figured out a way to control that hamburger disease. You dip the hamburger into the scalding hot coffee before eating.

  David Letterman

  Coffee, Hot, Hamburgers

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• It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

  Pope Francis

  Gossip, Coward, Watches

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• Chess is not a game, but a disease.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Games, Chess

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