Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.

Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

I considered obesity a disease. It can destroy you from within. It almost destroyed me, and I do not want that to happen to anybody.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems.

You don't forget you have Parkinson's disease, believe me, especially in the shower. If you are not paying attention, you fall down.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.

Do not forget that chiropractors did not treat diseases. They adjust causes, whether acquired, spontaneous, or the result of accident.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

All that is required of us, in our "new sexual ethic," is that we have sex in a way that favours us more than it favours our diseases.

Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

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