Barters Disease Quotes

A not uncommon practice was to associate nationality with a particular disease, often sexually transmitted. For example, the English called syphilis "The French Disease"; the French called it "The Italian Disease"; the Italians called it "The Turkish Disease"; the Russians called it "The Polish Disease"; and both the Japanese and the Indians termed it "The Portuguese Disease." Only the Spanish accepted any blame, referring to it as "The Spanish Disease. ~ Daniel N. Leeson

Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer. ~ Liz Miller

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease. ~ Eula Biss

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. ~ Susan Sontag

I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease. ~ Laura Bush

There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people. ~ Bernie Siegel

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission. ~ Henry Waxman

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. ~ Anne Wojcicki

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization. ~ Andrew Weil

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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

To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. ~ Lao-Tzu

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. ~ Sean Elliott

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease. ~ Sharon Weil

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease. ~ Harvey MacKay

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. ~ Lauren Oliver

All disease begins in the gut. ~ Hippocrates

All disease starts in the gut. ~ Hippocrates

HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease. ~ Laurie Glimcher

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease. ~ Patrick Soon-Shiong

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover. ~ Craig Ferguson

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. ~ Jimmy Carter

Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, larger
phenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease of
time; life, again, a disease of matter.
Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itself
is only an infirmity of God. ~ Emil Cioran

The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal. ~ Michael Phelps

Awareness about heart disease has got to be raised. ~ Vinnie Jones

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers ... Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been based on the fear of disease, particularly infectious disease. ~ Peter Duesberg

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you! ~ Stella Payton

My own area of expertise is the genetics of human disease. I was fortunate to be part of the team that found the genes for cystic fibrosis, and Huntington's disease and neurofibromatosis. ~ Francis Collins

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil. ~ Euripides

You're a disease. And I'm the cure. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody. ~ Dr. Dre

The Japanese are a disease of the skin ... the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political ... Two reds sandwiching a black ... ~ Jung Chang

Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. ~ Robert Lanza

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease. ~ Henry Fielding

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease. ~ Aesop

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. ~ William Shakespeare

Vampirism is not a contagious disease. ~ Alex Taylor

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease ... ~ Laetitia Pilkington

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. ~ Paracelsus

Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing. ~ Max Ehrmann

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease. ~ Sargent Shriver

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. ~ Judith Peacock

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease
a genuine, absolute disease. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sickness and disease are a change in awareness from comfort to discomfort. ~ Deepak Chopra

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. ~ Stendhal

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment. ~ Syesha Mercado

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others. ~ William Blake

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure. ~ Anodea Judith

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. ~ Chinua Achebe

I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, ~ Christopher Hitchens

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure ~ Hippocrates

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost. ~ Atul Gawande

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. ~ Aeschylus

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. ~ Neil Gaiman

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. ~ Hippocrates

Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured. ~ Brennan Manning

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has. ~ William Osler

We shall immunize every child in Africa to get rid of this terrible disease forever. ~ Nelson Mandela

It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another. ~ Thomas More

Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination. ~ Sara Coleridge

Every man's disease is his personal property. ~ Alonzo M. Clark

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now. ~ Todd Haynes

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease. ~ William Osler

There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them. ~ Herbert M. Shelton

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now. ~ John O'Keefe

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. ~ Erasmus Darwin

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease. ~ Chrystos

Disease is a manifestation of human thought because it is ideas, worldviews, and beliefs that create the conditions in which a society can be riddled with disease, strife, and poverty, or can continue in health and harmony. ~ F. David Peat

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ... ~ Sherwood Anderson

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease. ~ Hippocrates

There is no permanent ideal of disease resistance, merely the shifting sands of impermanent obsolescence. ~ Matt Ridley

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis. ~ Wilfred Trotter

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off ~ Ibn Taymiyyah

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

High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves. ~ John A. McDougall

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do. ~ Nicole Richie

Lyme disease is preventable, but only if Canadians have the information they need to prevent it. ~ Vanessa Farnsworth

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted. ~ John Cleese

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. ~ Xavier Becerra

Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease. ~ Hippocrates

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive. ~ Cara Delevingne

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease. ~ Prince Philip

The hunger of passions is the greatest disease. ~ Gautama Buddha

Most of the human body disease such as Obesity, Cancer, Heart disease are linked with our food which we eat in our day to day life. If people are eating health food than how come there be more than 50% death from heart and cancer disease alone in a developed nation such as USA? ~ Subodh Gupta

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war. ~ Sun Yat-sen

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes. ~ Juvenal

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease. ~ Ellen Glasgow

Intellegence is a disease ~ J. Philipse

According to the Western model, pregnancy is a disease, menopause is a disease, and even getting pregnant is a disease. Dangerous drugs and devices are given to women, but not to men- just for birth control. I've reached the conclusion that to many doctors BEING A WOMAN IS A DISEASE ~ Barbara Seaman

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. ~ Pierre Abelard

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job. ~ Roddy McDowall

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously. ~ Kelly Ripa