Brian Aldiss Quotes

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society?

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

Let him not throw urine or feces into the water, nor saliva, nor clothes defiled by impure substances, nor any other impurity, nor blood, nor poisonous things.

Hygiene is two thirds of health.

The Clintons are walking around on poo. But it’s very clean poo.

Cleanliness is a good thing, which the society should embrace. But it has nothing to do with Modi, nor can he implement it.

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.

Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.

The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.

I am honoured to be invited by our respected Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi to join the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.' I dedicate myself to this movement and will invite nine other leading Indians to join me in the 'Clean India' campaign.

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.

I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

The reduction of the death rate is the principal statistical expression and index of human social progress.