“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.” ThinkingWorldGivingShouldShowsMightTurnsNationsSidesPleasureFieldsThis WorldSorrowGayBattleDiseaseOceanDiversityBallsCourtPrisonNotionStrangerTyrannyHospitalsOperaShould IDistressCrowdedFaminePestilenceDebtors Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)
“My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.” GivingWould BeFightingLeftParentDifficultMy OwnChildhoodBattleDiseaseGiving UpWarriorSubstitutesStableStoic Author:Joni Mitchell
“And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's based on sexual transmission. And it's still shame-based. And until people feel strong enough and feel loved enough to actually open up and say, listen, I'm HIV-positive, then we are facing an uphill battle.” PeopleFeelsYearsStillsEnoughStrongChangedBattleDiseaseShameStrong EnoughHivStigmaTransmissionHiv PositiveUphill Battles Author:Elton John
“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.” PeopleFeelsSeemsDifferencesBattleDiseaseBraveCancerInequalityOld PeopleFartFeeling LonelyDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer'sOld Farts Author:Terry Pratchett
“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” WarAdventureBattleTravelDiseaseAntiwarTailsFunny TravelJust WarSoldiers At WarWars And BattlesHeads Or TailsTyphus Book:Flight to Arras Source: Flight to Arras
“During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.” WorldFirstsWarSeeingHairBattlePureDiseaseMessagesFellowsSoldierSpreadWideDestroyedWar Of The WorldsBreastsFactoriesWorld War ITroopsNaziRunnersDistributionDollsDeliveringTrenchesDisgustedDresdenFirst World WarBrothelsBloodlineFellow Soldiers Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.” MenWayTwoScienceCarBattleDiseaseBenefitsMen And WomenDoctorsAccountsHorseAverageDrivingTreatedWitchApplicationVehicleShellsMotorTwo WaysSurgeonsPistolsAverage ManDaggersMotor Cars Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.” MenNeedsYearsLongWarCommonEnemyPovertyStruggleArmsBearsBattleDiseasePatientBurdenTyrannyRejoiceTwilightTrumpetsTribulationInauguralInaugural AddressCommon EnemyInaugural Speech Author:John F. Kennedy
“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.” IfsMenWould BeFireDutyBattleDiseaseHundredGunMachinesArmyIf I CouldOne ManExposure Author:Richard Jordan