Aids Quotes - Page 6

• AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals. It is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Punishment

  "Grand Theft Jesus". Book by Robert S. McElvaine, 2008.

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• We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Taken, Victory

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• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  David Geffen

  Apathy, Hiv, Growing

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• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  Uri Geller

  War, Cancer, Nuclear Missiles

  "Who is the real Uri Geller?". Interview to Holistic London Guide, www.urigeller.com. 1997.

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• There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

  Thom Gunn

  War, Two, Hiv

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• During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

  Jane D. Hull

  Special, Three, Band

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• I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Reflection, Keys

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

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• Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hiv, Aids Day, Individual

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

  Evita Peron

  Book, History, Use

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• I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Hair, Attention

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• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  Susan Sontag

  Suicide, Sex, Thinking

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• To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Part IV : Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions, Appendix, 17, 1677.

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• I found out through the Internet that I have AIDS. I learned that I was dead. Where else would I find these things?

  Layne Staley

  Hiv, Internet, Found

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• I don't think President Bush is doing anything at all about Aids. In fact, I'm not sure he even knows how to spell Aids.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Thinking, President, Hiv

  "Liz’s Aids Odyssey". Interview With Nancy Collins, www.vanityfair.com. November 1992.

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• I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS.

  Steven Tyler

  Grateful, Drug, Doing Me

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• The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Race, Stupidity

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Character, Thinking, People

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• No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

  Colin Powell

  War, Pandemics, Earth

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

  Charles Babbage

  Machines, Guides, Arise

  Charles Babbage, Philip Morrison, Emily Morrison (1961). “Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

  Larry Niven

  Two, Childhood, Disease

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• The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

  Peter Piot

  Reality, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

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• Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

  David Duke

  Vegetables, Ku Klux Klan, Miracle

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• AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

  Larry Kramer

  Definitions, Modern, Authority

  "AIDS is a plague allowed to happen" By Larry Kramer, www.cnn.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Sorry, Coffee

  Stephen King (1974). “Carrie”

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