Syphilis Quotes

• This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying “Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, People, Top Gear

  "Top Gear: Series 8". TV Series, May 7, 2006.

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• One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Phoenix, Giving

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• He who knows syphilis knows medicine

  William Osler

  Medicine, Know Me, Knows

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• Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  Europe, America, Hiv

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Boredom, Literature, Disease

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

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• Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

  Alexis Carrel

  Enemy, Comfort, Mankind

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• Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list.

  Eminem

  Girl, Art, Media

  Song: Cum on Everybody

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• The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Fighting, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis.

  Carl Zimmer

  Christian, Kings, Sex

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• We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Government, Veins, Spirit

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• Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune deficiency, various tropical diseases because of poor infrastructure, general levels of poverty don’t get treated. Syphilis untreated or not properly treated, which as it happens is a big problem as I hear, gets treated, the symptoms disappear but in fact… it … that impacts on the immune system. You’ve got to deal with these things.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, Poverty, Facts

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

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• I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

  Margaret Atwood

  School, Character, Gossip

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Class, Luxury

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.74, Random House

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• Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, White, Black

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.97, Broadway Books

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• Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Top Gear, Cool Cars

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• Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

  Stanley Norman Cohen

  Cancer, Lovely Lady, Cynical

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• WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

  Julian Barnes

  Genius, Century, Claims

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• No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Parent, Healthy

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.89, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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• Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Firsts, Farewell To Arms, Ends

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Unhappy, Savages

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Song "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" is actually about syphilis.

  Amy Schumer

  Song, Sixteen, Seventeen

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• The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

  Robert Briffault

  Education, Instruction, Infantile

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• Syphilis. Lots and lots of magically delicious Syphilis.

  Ilona Andrews

  Delicious

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.28, Penguin

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