When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.
Claude LeviStrauss
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Rita Mae Brown
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
Robert McAfee Brown
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
Thomas Troward
We cannot really think in one way and act in another...
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
Never say oops in the operating room.
Dr. Leo Troy
It takes two to destroy a marriage.
Margaret Trudeau
Reason over passion.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Gerhard Kocher
Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.
A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them.
Soft data, hard conflicts.
Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.
In a hospital, half of the patients get better food than at home.
After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
The most frequent lie in a hospital: it won't hurt.
Life is one of the most important causes of death.
Never ask a surgeon whether you need an operation.
Medicine knows no limits, especially not its own.
From year to year, it is more obvious: the goal of medicine is not health but the further extension of the health system.
Life is a loss of time.
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)
The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.
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