“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.” PeopleUniverseChristEnvironmentBloodTaughtDiseaseAnxietyCommunicateSexualityAidsNeighborCupsCommunionSurgeryRegisterTaught Us Author:Susan Sontag
“How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.” WorldKindMayMeanChildrenHas BeensFactsUseMightSufferingLostDealsBrainChildhoodTaughtDiseaseTrainingAppreciateRuinsImaginaryMight Have Been Author:Lyman Abbott
“I made some friends at Listerine and they taught me a little bit about oral care. That half of adults suffer from oral disease, that the number one chronic disease among children is oral disease, that we're only taking care of 25% of our mouths when brushing alone and there are more germs in your mouth than there are people on the planet.” PeopleChildrenLittlesMadeCareSufferingBitsNumbersHalfTaughtPlanetsDiseaseLittle BitMouthsAdultsGermsBrushing Author:Ginnifer Goodwin
“If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsChildrenCausesMoneyTeachTaughtDiseaseOur ChildrenCarefulSpendingGrandmotherImpressMy GrandmotherThink TwiceSpending MoneyWants And Needs Author:Michelle Singletary
“I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.” StillsConditionsTaughtDiseasePityMotorNeurons Author:Stephen Hawking
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” BookIdeasHateTaughtDiseaseI HateBanned Books Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.” TaughtDiseaseI Have Learned Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Joy is as infectious as any disease. When you see a few people dancing, suddenly you feel your feet are ready. You may try to control them, because control has been taught to you, but your body wants to join the dance. Whenever you have an opportunity to laugh, join; whenever you have an opportunity to dance, join; whenever you have an opportunity to sing, sing - and one day you will find you have created your paradise.” PeopleWantFeelsTryingMayHas BeensBodyJoyOpportunityLaughingFeetTaughtReadyOne DayDiseaseDancingYour BodyParadise Author:Rajneesh
“The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.” Has BeensScienceTaughtHealthDiseaseDoctorsCuresTranquility Author:Ashley Montagu
“My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.” PeopleMenMadeParentTaughtDiseaseAidsUndesirable Author:Kanye West