Tutonic Knights Quotes

All should take care of the sick

Furthermore we decree that no women shall be admitted in full service and fellowship to this Order, for it often happens that manly courage is most harmfully softened by familiarity with women. And yet, since there are some services for the sick in the hospitals and also for the livestock which are better performed by women than by men, therefore, it is permitted to receive women as sister aids for such services

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

The offence is, in some measure, to be tolerated in those who did it through ignorance, so it is to be rigorously punished in those who do not fear to sin knowingly

… a punishment for blasphemers.

When the sick person arrives, before being put to bed, he shall confess his sins, if he is strong enough and if there is a confessor, and he shall also receive the Eucharist if the confessor advises it. In no other way shall anyone who is sick be admitted to the hospital.

My advice to the Sultan is to build hospitals for sick Muslims, with a staff of physicians and attendants who will cure them and minister to their needs

It may seem a strange principal to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

There is the utmost order & contentment in their [the British] hospitals. The wounded whom we brought off from the field were not half so well treated as those whom we left in General Howe's hands. Our Officers and Soldiers spoke with gratitude and affection of their Surgeons. An orderly man was allotted to every ten of our wounded, and British Officers called every morning upon our officers to know whether their Surgeons did their duty.

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

I'm so mean I make medicine sick!

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system. We wait until people become obese, develop chronic diseases, or become disabled - and then we spend untold hundreds of billions annually to try to make them better.

The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.

No one will take care of you if you don't take care of yourself.

And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but that the latter usually only present, in a different way, the same disastrous pattern.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

The sick man must follow his illness to the place where it is treated... He is set aside in one of the technical and secret zones (hospitals, prisons, refuse dumps) which relieve the living of everything that might hinder the chain of production and consumption, and which repair and select what can be sent back up to the surface of progress.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

In Canada... we should be there for the nurses, cause they are always there for us.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.

You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.