“Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease.”
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 1 - The Vision
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Henri Barbusse197
French novelist 1873–1935Related quotes
“For a desperate disease a desperate cure.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 3. The Custom of the Isle of Cea
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Cure the disease and kill the patient.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Friendship
Essays (1625)
Variant: Cure the disease, and kill the patient.
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Thomas Browne book Religio Medici
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker
Inside Information p. 4
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.”
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Financial Sense http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/steer/2007/0805.html Also quoted in “Covert Operation”, Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, (Aug. 30, 2010)
Hippocrates (-460–-370 BC) ancient Greek physician
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
Aphorisms
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception