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“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.”

People Universe Christ Environment Blood Taught Disease Anxiety Communicate Sexuality Aids Neighbor Cups Communion Surgery Register Taught Us

Author:Susan Sontag

“Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.”

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.”

Made Disease Neighbor Usual Suspicious Grasping Covetousness

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.”

Ifs Knows Enough Whole Deals Poverty Failing Land Disease Tasks Neighbor Being True Nevertheless Ugliness Whole Truth

Book:It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

Source: It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays

“We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.”

People World Children Ends Suffering Culture Parent Understanding Numbers Family Poverty Disease Our Children Longing Hunger Caring Neighbor Genuine Generosity Genuine Friendship

Author:John Conyers

“There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.”

Health Limits Disease Neighbor

Author:Aeschylus

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.”

Feelings Today Evil Women Poverty Terrible Disease Victim Charity Cancer Corruption Neighbor Indifference Exploitation Unwanted Deserted Lack Of Love Tuberculosis Roadside Leprosy

Book:My Life for the Poor

Source: My Life for the Poor

“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.”

Country Matter Economic Disease Concern Economics Neighbor

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt