“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
As quoted in news reports (18 March 1956) and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) by James Beasley Simpson
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Swedish diplomat, economist, and author 1905–1961Related quotes
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.”
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
Source: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Variant: The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 183
“I may not be a great surgeon, but the one little heart I have, I have given to you.”
Source: One Night @ the Call Center (2005), P. 92
Preface to Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence (1931)
1940s and later