Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
—Ivan Illich
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
—Mark Twain
I had never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
—Carson McCullers
Justice is like the kingdom of God—it is not without us as a fact; it is within us as a great yearning.
—George Eliot
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.… All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
—H. L. Mencken
The real existence of an enemy upon whom one can foist off everything evil is an enormous relief to one's conscience. You can then at least say, without hesitation, who the devil is; you are quite certain that the cause of your misfortune is outside, and not in your own attitude.
—Carl Jung
Question: How can justice be secured in Athens?
Solon: If those who are not injured feel as indignant as those who are.
—Solon
If you see a white man running, you think, He must be late for a meeting. When you see a black man running, you think, I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!
—Wanda Sykes
Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
—Eric Holder
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
—John Ruskin
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
—Jesse Jackson
The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.
—Mother Teresa
Justice is open to all—like the Ritz Hotel.
—Sir James Mathew
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
—Jonathan Swift
If I did half of the things this sorry President [Nixon] did, they would put me under the jail and send every key to the moon. They have the little punishments for the big men and the heavy chastisement for the poor.
—Ruth Shays