“Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended at all even to take in the whole sick population.”

— Florence Nightingale

Sick-Nursing and Health-Nursing" (1893)

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English social reformer and statistician, and the founder o… 1820–1910

Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book II, Chapter 2, p. 197
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

“My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization... I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.”

Andrew Hurley (1980) American musician

The Boys With the Car-Crash Hearts (March 8, 2007)

“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Notes on Hospitals 3rd Edition (1863), Preface
Variant: It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
Source: Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

“… you should never take medicine to relieve pain. You should never consult a doctor or go to a hospital for treatment, because you would be interfering with the work of God in your life. If Cancer is the chastening tool of God, then doctors who are fighting cancer are fighting against the work of God. If a preacher or a Christian believes the sickness is a means of chastening, then he should never pray for relief from the sickness, but rather pray that the cancer will continue to grow until the chastening is completed.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

More Than Just Comfort: An Answer to Cancer (c. 1979)

“The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (1973), p. 395
Context: The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic. In the context of this study the crucial question is whether the hypothesis of a quasi-autistic or of low-grade schizophrenic disturbance would help us to explain some of the violence spreading today.

“The only exercise I ever take is walking up hospital stairs to visit friends who've damaged themselves by taking exercise.”

Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft (1914–1987) British politician

A Chinaman in My Bath

“In the Netherlands people wear a different bracelet if you’re elderly and the bracelet is ‘do not euthanize me.’ Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year, and it’s 10 percent of all deaths for the Netherlands, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily at hospitals because they are older and sick. And so elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital, they go to another country, because they are afraid, because of budget purposes, that they will not come out of that hospital if they go in with sickness.”

Rick Santorum (1958) American politician

During a forum at the Grace Bible Church in Columbia moderated by James Dobson
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“The safest way to transport a sick newborn, so hospital wisdom goes, is when it is still inside its mothers.”

Perri Klass (1958) American pediatrician and writer

[Baby Doctor, https://books.google.com/books?id=8VAsAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=newborn, 1992, 249, Random House, 978-0-679-40957-1]

“I'm sick of playing all of these games
It's not about taking ties.”

Jordin Sparks (1989) American singer, winner of 2007 American Idol

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“When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with."”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

Daily Telegram #926, A General Digging Out Of Old War Contracts (15 July 1929) <ref name=telegram2>
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