Aids Quotes - Page 29

• When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Hippie, School

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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• When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.

  Martin Schulz

  Cutting, Technology, Ongoing

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

  Bill Gates

  Player, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

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• Government-to-government aid rests on socialistic assumptions and promotes socialism and stagnation, whereas private foreign investment rest on capitalist assumptions and promotes private enterprise and maximum economic growth.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Growth, Assumption

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• Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

  James Bovard

  Government, Thieves, Foreign Aid

  James Bovard (2015). “The Bush Betrayal”, p.110, Macmillan

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• The growing inequality of wealth and income distribution is both a moral and economic problem. If the wealthy are unwilling to pay more taxes, then this is going to lead to spending cuts. And if you put off the table things like national defense, then you're going to end up cutting more and more out of programs that aid the poor. So, I think there are consequences to this idea that tolerance for inequality requires us to - to just do nothing to make the wealthy contribute a higher share of resources to fund the government.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Cutting, Thinking, Ideas

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• When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Law, Pay, Firsts

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• Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, Justice, Giving

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

  Noam Chomsky

  Space, People, Community

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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• A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Doe, Movement, Demand

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• There was a time when everyone remembered that stupid thing about me not getting out of bed for less than $10,000 a day. These days, it's far more important to me that I'm part of a team which raises over $1 million a month for Aids. I'm much more proud of that, than that other old quote.

  Linda Evangelista

  Team, Stupid, Important

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

  Terence McKenna

  Heaven, Agendas, Earth

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• Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

  John F. Kennedy

  United States, World, Influence

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• Let us remember that the main purpose of American aid is not to help other nations, but to help ourselves.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Helping Others, Purpose, Remember

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

  William Easterly

  Thinking, Practice, Democracy

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• If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

  Ziggy Marley

  Country, Together, Problem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Common, Corruption

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• Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Zimbabwe, Giving

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• The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

  Bill Gates

  Cutting, People, Dying

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• The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Epidemics, Vaccines, Would Be

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• Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

  Bill Gates

  Dollars, Saving, Save A Life

  "Amanpour" with Hala Gorani, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2014.

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• AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

  Bill Gates

  Aids Day, Incredibles, Stigma

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• The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

  Bill Gates

  War, Fall, Hands

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