#thou

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#addressing #basic #cannot #development #environmental

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#afghanistan #been #benefited #better #bring

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #coups #get #going #gone

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#classes #composed #first #freemen #independent

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#aids #changed #countries #cured #discourse

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#build #capacity #competition #health #just

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#deeply #despise #either #high #men

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#being #better #comforted #existence #gentle

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#begun #live #man #more #seriously

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#cannot #created #doing #i #imagine