Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Quotes
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963