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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Preface (p. xi)
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
Mark Twain1835–1910“Following the Equator: Pudd’s ahead Wilson’s New Calendar”, as quoted in Medicine in Quotations: Views of Health and Disease Through the Ages (2006), p. 146
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
Marcel Proust1871–1922
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Speech to the Second National Convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights – Chicago (25 March 1966), as quoted in Dan Munro, “America’s Forgotten Civil Right—Healthcare”, Forbes (28 August 2013)
- Justice
I have no doubt in my mind that vaccination is a filthy process, that it is harmful in the end and that it is little short of taking beef.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948chapter 01. Independence Pledge ( 1930 )
I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cold Turkey (2004)
- Comedy
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo1907–1954As quoted in “Mexican Autobiography”, Time (27 April 1953)
- Art
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates460–370 BCEpidemics, Book I
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)
Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 387 (24 May 1712)
- Happiness
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 2
- Emotion
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1: The Most Precious Thing
- Science
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind⁠—and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894Address at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society (30 May 1860)
Psychic illnesses are the result of a disturbance of the natural capacity for love.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957The Function of the Orgasm (1942)
- Love