Quotes with hygiene

Quotes 1 till 5 of 5.

• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

  ― Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Source: Secrets and Lies (2000)

  ― Bruce Schneier
  American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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• Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it - or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  ― Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene - nine-tenths of it!

  ― Henry Miller
  American writer (1891 - 1980)
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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

  ― Logan Pearsall Smith
  English writer (1865 - 1946)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consequences
• technologies
• indifference
• denunciation
• circulation
• prevented

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