Disease Quotes - Page 18

• As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

  Diogenes

  House, Body, Provision

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• Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Smell, Eating

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

  Jack Levin

  Fighting, Prison, Building

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• We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

  William James

  Sight, Disease And Death, Attention

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.88, Library of America

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• High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves.

  John A. McDougall

  Cancer, Heart, Loss

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• Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Creativity, Brain, Mind

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• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  Virginia Postrel

  Blue, Wife, Comedian

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• I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

  Edward Albee

  Doctors, Drug, Wonder

  Edward Albee (2003). “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ignorance, Men, Effort

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.1371, Modern Library

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• When men die of disease they are said to die from
  natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
  the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Credit

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

  Rumi

  Soul, World, Want

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• Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.

  Ted Cruz

  Answers, Problem, Cures

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• Pink culture is presented in a positive, pink and gentle way bordering on the thinking that we are "close" to finding a cure. This does not reflect today's reality of more women dying around the world from this disease and the lack of real progress.

  Leanne Pooley

  Real, Thinking, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.

  Ravida Din

  People, Progress, Dollars

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.

  Ravida Din

  Cancer, Campaigns, Causes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.

  Ravida Din

  Trying, Groups, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign onto the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and at the same time promote itself as leading the fight against breast cancer?

  Ravida Din

  Cancer, Fighting, Hypocrisy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

  Marion Nestle

  Years, Littles, United States

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Media, Order

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, Heart, Autism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, People, Personality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.

  Arnold Kling

  Believe, Income, Poverty

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• Middle management is a disease.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Middle Management, Management, Middle

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• For example, in Vitamin K, the clotting proteins get it first... and
  only after they're satisfied do you prevent calcification of the arteries,
  or prevent cancer, or prevent bone fractures. It's all insidious damage
  that you get that's a long term consequence. In fact, we call these the
  diseases of aging.

  Bruce Ames

  Cancer, Long, Example

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• Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter...will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.

  Lewis Strauss

  Children, Home, Men

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