The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.
It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
No opposing quotes found.