Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
Will RogersPublic health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Herbert HooverThe bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.
Terry PratchettThe golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George EliotToday, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.
Pope FrancisMichelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Barack ObamaThe funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.
Kevin HartI’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.
Kamala HarrisWhenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas JeffersonNothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.
Erma BombeckI am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
Conor McGregorEnlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
Thich Nhat HanhIt’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
Bill GatesThe eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas CarlyleOnly that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David ThoreauI found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
Dwayne JohnsonWhen you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.
John LennonI came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNo notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AristotleI recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George CarlinIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Florence NightingaleThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond TutuI am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
Terry PratchettWhen America stopped importing from China, China stopped importing from the rest of the world. This affects Asian countries as well as Australia, Brazil, and other suppliers of raw materials.
Robert KiyosakiA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergI walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo CoelhoAccept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Jordan PetersonPrejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
Eckhart TolleIn 1949, China declared independence – an event known in Western discourse as ‚the loss of China‘ in the U.S. – with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.
Noam ChomskyA doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.
Henny YoungmanI think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.
Bill GatesI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray BradburyIt occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettIt seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.
Terry PratchettEach generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Albert CamusMen should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.
Niccolo MachiavelliReactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Fidel CastroYou cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert EinsteinI believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
Mark ZuckerbergRead about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
Jim MattisEveryone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve JobsFacts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous HuxleyAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoIntellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert EinsteinThat’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘
Maya AngelouIt’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
Colin PowellNever trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. RowlingIf you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
King SolomonI have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
Greta ThunbergYou can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. ThompsonWords do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Jim RohnIf the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. LewisBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonEvery step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChina adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
Bill GatesI do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.
Elizabeth KennyHappiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
Robert Baden-PowellYou go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.
Noam Chomsky