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Quotes About Disease

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.
~ B. J. Palmer
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
~ Sean Elliott
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
~ John Forbes Nash
A tenor is not a man but a disease.
~ Hans von Bulow
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.
~ Albert Einstein
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
~ Kanye West
One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
~ Pliny the Younger
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.
~ Thomas Sydenham
It is miserably clear that the video has been shot by a third conspirator who is burdened with a consumer-grade camcorder and reeling from some kind of inner-ear disease that he or she would like to share with others.
~ Neal Stephenson
It tells you that evil is a virus!
~ Neal Stephenson
That's what medicine was to kids: an acute response to disease. When you got older you understood it was more like brushing your teeth: a system of highly evolved strategies for preempting bad things that could happen to you if you took no preventive measures.
~ Neal Stephenson
That's worst than gonerreha, man!
~ Ned Vizzini
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be "of Venus" ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can't blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct -- if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Because the genetic makeup of a virus has to be able to… well, mesh with a cell to infect it. Human cells do not mesh with FMD virus." Beth said, "But there's some evidence that Mad Cow Disease has infected humans.
~ Nelson DeMille
without efficient public plumbing cities are death-traps
~ Niall Ferguson
Can it really be that England became the first industrial nation mainly because bad sanitation and disease kept life exceptionally short for the majority of people, giving the rich and enterprising minority a better chance to pass on their genes?
~ Niall Ferguson
between economic freedom and government regulation? Chapter 2 will address these issues. The specific question I ask is how far very complex regulation has become the disease of which it purports to be the cure, distorting and corrupting both the political and the economic process.
~ Niall Ferguson
in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli