Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

England has a long history of supporting alternative medicine - maybe it's because they don't have such a strong pharmaceutical industry in England, and homeopathy has been taught and promoted there for hundreds of years.

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

Many years ago doctors would bleed sick patients with leeches. Today, the insurance companies do that.

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers

My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.

I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind.

I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.