“Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldYearsPayKnownActivityDiseaseBehaviorConsequenceFaultsBurdenSpreadInnocentSexuallyPromiscuitySexually Transmitted DiseasesPersonal Behavior Author:Ron Paul
“We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity.” MenHumansEnoughFactsHelpingMightRememberHumanityOrderHeavenSinChristianityHeardWillingBearsBecomingDiseaseUniqueGloryWeaknessAccountsDown AndBurdenMythologyMarsAttemptingPaganInfirmityJupiterMinervaBecoming A Man Author:A. C. Dixon
“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” KindHardEnoughKidsHealthyDiseaseNormalRaisesAddParentingBurdenParenthoodDisability Author:Patricia Heaton
“Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.” WorldChildrenParentSinQualityDiseaseOur ChildrenBurdenHeavyCarrieEnteringHeavy Burdens Author:Bob Edwards
“To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.” ChristianSpiritualTearsPrayingDiseaseHighestFilledCastsBurdenShakesVigorRags Author:Charles Spurgeon
“If you take the burden of health care, of diseases off the backs of some other countries, it gives them a chance to use their own very limited resources in ways that help their people. And also there's a hopelessness associated with deadly diseases, that if that can be alleviated, people can build their own economies in their own countries and they'll be less reliant on the developed world for help.” PeopleIfsWorldWayGivingCountryHelpingUseCareChanceEconomyDiseaseResourcesBurdenHealth CareOther CountriesHopelessnessLimited ResourcesDeadly Diseases Author:Laura Bush
“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.” MenWorldShouldHardFallWishPovertyIgnoranceDiseaseRainHungerBurdenNuclearCatastrophe Author:Haile Selassie
“In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.” HeartHelpingSufferingSocialEconomicNeededDiseaseResearchPatientCancerBurdenEnormousStrokesDiabetesAlzheimerAlzheimer'sHeart DiseaseParkinsonArthritisParkinson'sOsteoporosis Author:Ike Skelton
“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.” HeartSufferingHateLiteratureVisionSeeingSorrowDiseaseHatredBurdenPoison Author:Aeschylus
“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease. We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.” IfsThinkingNeedsWellsHelpingEyePainMovingSufferingCultureWaitingLossGriefMorningBearsLetting GoDiseaseBurdenWitnessMourningCheerLive WellCheer UpBeing SadAvert Author:Cheryl Strayed
“Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment, can we hope to attain to a comprehension of 'the wisdom of the body and the understanding of the heart,' and thereby to the mastery of disease and pain, which will enable us to relieve the burden of mankind.” WayHeartBodyPainScienceUnderstandingNatureSecretStudyMankindDiseaseFollowingBurdenExperimentsMasteryComprehensionPredecessorsHarvey Author:Ernest Starling
“We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.” IfsSoulSuccessSuccessfulIntegrityDiseaseBurdenCuresBotherRight ThingBeing SuccessfulWrong Things Author:E. F. Schumacher
“Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are least responsible for creating the problem. Despite this, funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even 1 percent of what is needed.” PeopleCountryHelpingProblemEnergyLossPoorRichEnvironmentBearsNeededDiseaseCreatingPercentResponsibleClimateClimate ChangeInjusticeFinancialBurdenDespiteVulnerableDevelopingPoor PeopleGrossFundingDeveloping CountriesHelp The PoorRich CountriesFinancial LossPoor And Vulnerable Author:Barbara Stocking
“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
“The Caribbean is the region in the Americas worst affected by the epidemic of NCDs. These diseases are responsible for over two- thirds of deaths, much sickness and ill health, resulting in an unsustainable burden on our fragile economies.” TwoEconomyWorstDiseaseThirdsResponsibleIllBurdenSicknessRegionsAffectedFragileEpidemicsCaribbeanIll Health Author:Freundel Stuart