Daniel Martin (1977)
“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
“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
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.
Sander Gilman (1944) American historian
page 14.
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul (1998)
“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
“Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
“I may not be a great surgeon, but the one little heart I have, I have given to you.”
Chetan Bhagat book One Night @ the Call Center
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 92
