The true aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases that ravaged pre-agricultural people (something we hear often) is like arguing that seat belts and air bags protect us from car crashes that were fatal to our prehistoric ancestors. —Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. —Steve Martin More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature. —John Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The pain-relieving ingredient — there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit. —Jerry Seinfeld More about this quote Tags: pain death drugs aspirin Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. —Chinese proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A Short History of Medicine2000 BC: "Here, eat this root."1000 BC: "That root is heathen, say this prayer."1850 AD: "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."1940 AD: "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."1985 AD: "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."2000 AD: "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root. —Author unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. —Rumi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We do not walk into the Kingdom of Heaven one by one. —Mary Parker Follett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn't as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress. —Jean Vanier More about this quote Tags: strength helping community welcome distress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without community, there is no liberation . . . but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race. —Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. —Shelby Foote More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle. —Christopher Hitchens More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email