“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.” PeopleWorldFirstsHumansEnoughPovertyTechnologyEconomicConditionsDevelopmentDiseaseCapableFirst TimeCurrentsHuman ConditionIntegrationIlliteracyEconomic Integration Author:Clare Short
“Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.” IfsMenNeedsMeanImportantEconomicHe ManDiseaseMalesObviousSatisfiedSatisfyingUrgentProstitutionIntercourseDisease And Death Book:The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition Source: The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.” TurnsEvilLossEconomicSorrowBlessingDiseaseCrossesGoldFinalsDisappointmentSymbolsHeartacheFrustrationAlchemistDregsSlagLife Disappointment Author:Catherine Marshall
“I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsHas BeensSocialCausesChanceSpaceClassEconomicDiseaseConsciousProfitEaseBarriersArrangements Author:Randall Robinson
“We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.” WorldLooksStatesJobsCausesUnitedNumbersUnited StatesEconomicAmountDiseaseApproachDevelopingDisability Author:Melinda Gates
“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“I [have big plans]. Promoting freedom around the world, particularly with women in the Middle East. Working on global disease. Working on accountability in public schools. And advocating for a free marketplace and an economic environment in which businesses can innovate and create jobs.” WorldBigsSchoolJobsEnvironmentPlansEconomicMiddleDiseaseEastAround The WorldAccountabilityMiddle EastFree MarketPromotingPublic SchoolMarketplaceAdvocating Author:George W. Bush
“The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money, you have medical care; if you do not, then you are in trouble. I was not ready at all to build my economic security on the diseases of people, on suffering, especially of women and children. So, in a way, I rebelled against it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayChildrenCareSufferingGivenPoorTroubleEconomicSecurityReadyDiseaseProfessionMedicalEgyptNot ReadyMedical ProfessionMedical CareEconomic Security Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.” ProblemSocialDealsPovertyEconomicIgnorancePeriodsDiseaseIndiaPrioritiesMassiveEconomic Problems Author:Manmohan Singh
“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
“Environmental degradation is an iatrogenic disease induced by economic physicians who treat the basic malady of unlimited wants by prescribing unlimited growth.... Yet one certainly does not cure a treatment-induced disease by increasing the treatment dosage.” WantDoeGrowthEconomicDiseaseTreatsEnvironmentalCuresTreatmentPhysiciansUnlimitedDegradationMaladyEnvironmental DegradationPrescribingDosage Author:Herman E. Daly
“When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.” PeopleLoveSelfProblemWisdomPoliticalSpiritMoralMeditationEconomicAwarenessBirthDiseaseYogaRootsSickSelf RealizationPsychologicalRealizationWellnessEntitledEconomic ProblemsIncurable DiseasePsychological Problems Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.” HumansWarAgePoliticalHumanityIndividualHuman BeingsEconomicDiseaseBreathsTerrorismDrivenOppressionRelentlessBrutalityHomelandStarvationPiracyUnforgivingEconomy And EconomicsPolitical Oppression Author:Aberjhani
“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.” WarPoliticalJusticeEconomicBuildingConflictDiseaseHatredDollarsInjusticeInternationalAttackingDisobedienceStarvationServitudePreoccupationIlliteracyWorld Hunger Author:Daniel Berrigan
“Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near or distant.” CountryMatterEconomicDiseaseConcernEconomicsNeighbor Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt