Quotes on Health

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

Thought is the seed of action.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop.

Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Sleep is the Swiss army knife of health. When sleep is deficient, there is sickness and disease. And when sleep is abundant, there is vitality and health.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

We really need to be talking about the COVID vaccine the same way that we talk about other vaccinations - which is that it's safe, effective, life-saving and essential for the public's health.