Ginhawa Ventilator Quotes & Sayings

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits. — Pierre Bosquet

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. — Douglas MacArthur

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. — Oscar Wilde

All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible. — Albert Ellis

With paranoia on my heels
Will you love me still
When we awake and you see that
The sanity has gone from my eyes? — Colleen Hoover

I entertain the idea that if my present life is the punishment for a former life, then I would never want to meet myself as the self of this former life. — Sam Pink

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. — Pete Seeger

The selfmoment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars. — Jack McDevitt