Panacea Quotes

• The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Political, Ruins

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.4177, Simon and Schuster

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• My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Would Be, Sincerity, Enjoyable

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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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, Antibiotics

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

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• Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

  Howard Blum

  People, Gold, Feels

  "The Lure of Gold: PW Talks with Howard Blum". Interview with Amy Meng, www.publishersweekly.com. February 21, 2011.

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• Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Poison, Synthesis, Woe

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Good Communication

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• Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

  George Gilder

  Confused, Women, Movement

  George F. Gilder (1973). “Sexual Suicide”, [New York] : Quadrangle

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• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  P. Chidambaram

  Growth

  "​Tax Residency clause may have been clumsily worded: P Chidambaram". Interview with Supriya Shrinate, Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 1, 2013.

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• Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Numbers, Interesting

  "Reishi, Ling Zhi: ‘Mushrooms of Immortality’" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

  James Bovard

  Rights, People, Voting

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• If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.

  Paul Solomon

  Self, Cures, Ifs

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• To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  People, Evil, Energy

  "WOF: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan".

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• Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

  David Price

  Party, Government, Organs

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• The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.

  Tom Scholz

  Being Free, Bills, Mankind

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• Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Important, United States, Tools

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• Monetary policy is not a panacea.

  Ben Bernanke

  Monetary Policy, Policy, Monetary

  "Ben Bernanke won't commit to fiurther Fed stimulus - US politics live". Richard Adams's blog, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Children, Health

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.164, Macmillan

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• I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Philosophy, Perfect, Soup

  Elbert Hubbard (1898). “As it Seems to Me: Being Some Philistine Essays Concerning Several Things”

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• When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.

  Zig Ziglar

  Passion, Way, Happens

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• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow for the possibility that others may see something we have failed to see, or may see it more accurately. The simple purpose of the exchange program...is to erode the culturally rooted mistrust that sets nations against one another. The exchange program is not a panacea but an avenue of hope.

  J. William Fulbright

  Sympathy, Education, Hope

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• Of all wines, Champagne is the one that is the anytime drink, the panacea for all ills, the best bottle for any occasion and absolutely the only solution when there is something to celebrate.

  Serena Sutcliffe

  Wine, Drinking Champagne, Bottles

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• Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

  Bram Cohen

  Thinking, Technology, Drug Use

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• Peace is a great goal, but it is not a panacea. Neither is material wealth.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Goal, Wealth, Materials

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Zero, Media, Car

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• Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

  Anna Quindlen

  Loss, Hair, Punishment

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