“You don't get it boy… this isn't a mudhole… its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.”

— Frank Miller , The Dark Knight Returns

Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

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American writer, artist, film director 1957

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Daniel Martin (1977)

“The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 124
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

“Economists are surgeons ... who operate beautifully on the dead and torment the living.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

Maxims, #458
Original: (fr) Les économistes sont des chirurgiens qui … opérant à merveille sur le mort et martyrisant le vif.
Original: (fr) Maximes et Pensées, #458

“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author

As quoted in news reports (18 March 1956) and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson

“You will not find a surgeon operating you quite likable. You find a doctor trying to convince you that you are in a great shape, that you do not need an operation that you will get better by drinking teas, much more amiable. I want people to respect my work, not to like me. My goal is to have the Serbian government evaluated for what it benefited for this country using existing chances and own efforts and potentials, rather than by its smooth talk, paying court to the people and talking about its good intentions.”

Zoran Đinđić (1952–2003) Serbian politician

Politika, 25.10.2001.

“Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.”

Kathleen Hanna (1968) American musician and feminist activist

As quoted in The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, Paul Du Noyer, ed. (2003).
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“There is life after the operating table.”

Sudhir Choudhrie (1949) Indian businessman

"From the Heart Recounts Survival of Sudhir Choudrie's Heart-Transplant Surgery" http://www.tntmagazine.com/lifestyle-career/health-and-beauty/told-from-the-heart-recounts-survival-of-sudhir-choudries-heart-transplant-surgery", TNT Magazine (9th Mar 2020)