760 Quotes About Disease

...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

For the first time, I understood the ancients' need to find explanations for why things happen. It's a quintessential human imperative. Random is not emotionally satisfying. Therefore, lightning was the bolt from an angry god. Crop failure was punishment for failing to honor the gods with a fatted calf. The plague happened because you took the Lord's name in vain or coveted your neighbor's wife. Going to church regularly and praying could forestall illness. And on and on.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. First, the subjects of deepest dread (corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness) are identified with the disease. The disease itself becomes a metaphor. Then, in the name of the disease (that is, using it as a metaphor), that horror is imposed on other things. The disease becomes adjectival. Something is said to be disease-like, meaning that it is disgusting or ugly.

Monsanto is among the biggest serial killers in the USA.

What The Scriptures Refer To As Sin, In The Medical World It’s Responsible For Disease

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Enemy number one was now the disease. It had a presence as solid as that of a person - I think all serious illnesses do.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

there is a cultural perceptionthat we deserve thisbecause we overeator lack self-controland it isbullshit.diseases willaffect almost halfof all americans.it is no one’s fault