Antibiotics Quotes

• Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Food, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

  Andrew Weil

  Giving, Stronger, Firsts

  Andrew Weil (2004). “Natural Health, Natural Medicine: The Complete Guide to Wellness and Self-Care for Optimum Health”, p.212, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

  Bonnie Bassler

  War, Quality, Bacteria

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• Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.

  Margaret Chan

  Children, Moving, Mean

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• One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

  Alexander Fleming

  Science, Discovery, Luck

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• A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

  Randy Pausch

  Apology, Salt, Last Lecture

  "The Last Lecture". Book by Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch, 2008.

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• Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Clever, Believe, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Children, Vaccines, Fever

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• I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.

  Stephen Colbert

  Laughter, Medicine, Regimes

  "Stephen Colbert on why Stephen Colbert is awesome". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 11, 2007.

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• I don't expect the human race to progress in too many areas. However, having a child with an ear infection makes one hugely grateful for antibiotics.

  David Bowie

  Children, Grateful, Race

  "David Bowie: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. March 2004.

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• The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea - known to medical science is work.

  Thomas Szasz

  Work, Medical Science, Genuine

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.

  Suzanne Whang

  Growth Hormones, Temples, Body

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• Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, People, Age

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Taken, Thinking, Medicine

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• People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?

  David Wolfe

  Mushrooms, People, Why Not

  "David Wolfe Interview | World authority on raw foods, superfoods and natural healing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

  Ron Reagan

  Cells, Medicine, Research

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• I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.

  Carre Otis

  Doctors, Flu, Kind

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues that have the ability to threaten our species.

  Moby

  Issues, Political, Climate

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

  Joel Fuhrman

  People, Healthy, Needs

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• Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

  William A. Dembski

  Bacteria, Gains, Resistance

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• Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food.

  Prince Charles

  Real, Animal, Often Is

  "Organics Interview". Interview With Joanne Shoebridge, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2005.

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• We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Miracle, Polio

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You have climate change and antibiotic resistance which are two of the biggest horses of the apocalypse, and they're basically breathing on our necks, and there's no political will or effort being expended to deal with them.

  Moby

  Horse, Political Will, Breathing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, People, Choices

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