Disease quotes

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

All diseases run into one, old age.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

It 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.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches – he has made music sick.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can’t solve extreme poverty and disease, isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.