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It’s like I’ve got a shotgun in my mouth with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of the gun metal.
Robert Downey Jr.born 1965To Judge Lawrence Mira before sentencing, Malibu Municipal Court (August 1999)
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
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 )
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes.
Bill Gatesborn 1955“The next outbreak? We’re not ready”, TED talk (3 April 2015)
- War & Peace
If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression,⁠—a slight hysterical tendency,⁠—what is one to do?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
- Marriage
Personally I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
- Work
John is a physician, and perhaps⁠—(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind)⁠—perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)In context
- Writing
I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another’s company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend to you a doctor who will be unable to remove your tonsils with success.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961A Farewell to Arms (1929), Book II, Chapter XVIn context
- Clever Jabs
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates460–370 BCEpidemics, Book I
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)
I think sometimes we think, “Well, only gay people can get it; it’s not going to happen to me”, and here I am saying that it can happen to anybody.
Magic Johnsonborn 1959Johnson on who can get HIV, from his official announcement about living with HIV (7 November 1991)
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
The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness.
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Dr. James Kerr Love (1910), published in Helen Keller in Scotland: a personal record written by herself (1933), edited by James Kerr Love
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
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind
- Nature