It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti
Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.
—Louis C.K.
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
Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health.
—Adelle Davis
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
—Plato
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
—Quentin Crisp
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
—R. D. Laing
Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease—the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.
—Faith Sullivan
Financial ruin from medical bills is almost exclusively an American disease.
—Roul Turley
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
—Plato
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
—Sitting Bull
Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
—Joel Fuhrman, M.D.