Top 1200 Poor Health Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I support defunding the police - particularly the militarization of our police force and reallocating those resources toward public health. And not just health care but mental health support, affordable housing, education, alternatives to incarceration, non-emergency responses to those who might be in mental distress.

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.'

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

Men will spend their health getting wealth. Then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.

Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.

Since environmental and health damage is not factored into reducing GDP - and in fact the resulting health costs and the costs of cleaning up the environment would also inflate GDP, a GDP obsessed government would try and dismantle environmental and health regulations.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

I consider myself an expert on love, sex and health. Without health you can have very little of the other two.

If you think you have the right to health care, you are saying basically that I am your slave. I provide health care... My staff and technicians provide it... If you have a right to health care, then you have a right to their labor.

The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

We are the carriers of health and disease - either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

The Ministry of Health started by restructuring Ethiopia's previously male-dominated health system with women at the center.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.

Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.

Health and health inequalities tell us a great deal about the good or bad effects of social policies.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

The Health Center Cluster program helps communities all over the country by providing assistance to health centers and clinics.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

We have transformed Philips into a focused leader in health technology, delivering innovation to help people manage their health.

How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started. . . . My health is very good.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.