Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

There can be powerful magic in acts of desperation.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play.

When in doubt, blow something up.

We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around.

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

Hold, or cut bowstrings.

Necessity inspires the fatal thought.