Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow Quotes

Body: A cell state in which every cell is a citizen.

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

I'm just the same as anybody else now. To get TB again, I'd have to go out and catch a whole new case of it. Let's forget about it. I'm a ballplayer.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

I don't get sick.

I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

They don't know how to control us. That is why they send us spies, cancerous substances, epidemics and various diseases – because they consider us to be enemies. They consider the entire Arab nation to be their greatest enemy.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Many sections of our country and many groups of our citizens suffer from diseases the eradication of which are mere matters of administration and moderate expenditure. Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

As a war must have generals, so must a plague.