Health

"Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality."

"Bear and forbear."

"Sustine et abstine."

"Ἀνέχου και ἀπέχου."

"'Tis virtue to abstain from things that please."

"Est virtus placitis abstinuisse bonis."

"When asked a few years ago why her new curriculum's title now prominently featured the word abstinence, a progressive sex educator (who has herself worked to build a dike against the deluge of abstinence ed) said, "Because it is one way teens can choose to deal with sex." Her interlocutor, a saber-tongued sex therapist, replied, "Right. So's suicide." Abstinence education is not practical. It is ideological."

"There is a mainstream sex ed and there is right-wing sex ed. But there is no left-wing sex education in America."

"My experience through life has convinced me that while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard to morals and health."

"The perfect victory is to triumph over ourselves. For that keepeth himself subject in such sort that his sensual affections be obedient to reason, and his reason in all things obedient to Me; that person is truly conqueror of himself, and lord of the world."

"We tell people not to drink and drive. We don't teach them not to drive. ... We would never withhold information about seat belts because they wouldn't know how to protect themselves."

"I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse."

"When I started, someone told me that you should be with a lover the night before so you look all secure and soft out there. But for downhill you should reserve your strength. That's one of the most ridiculous things I've heard. You need to be loose in sports to do well, not all knotted up."

"ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

"Variant: To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."

"To preach fidelity and abstinence assumes that a woman can determine with whom she sleeps and when—a grave misunderstanding of the relations between the sexes in places where women are sometimes betrothed at birth or sold for cattle."

"Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations."

"Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity."

"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world."

"Until now, human intelligence, which is no more than a minute aspect of universal intelligence, has been distorted and misused by the ego. I call that “intelligence in the service of madness.” Splitting the atom requires great intelligence. Using that intelligence for building and stockpiling atom bombs is insane or at best extremely unintelligent. Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous. This intelligent stupidity, for which one could find countless obvious examples, is threatening our survival as a species."

"Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion, conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness. Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you will go down with it. The collective egoic mind is the most dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this planet."

"To complain is always non-acceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."

"Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species. That's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is also a fact that the sanity is there underneath the madness. Healing and redemption are available right now."

"Sanity is madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled."

"In the Puranas it was predicted that toward the end of Kali Yuga humanity would be driven to acts of madness. It is very dangerous that people do not recognize this state, for while it is possible to cure a patient who does not resist treatment, if he struggles against it the beneficial effects of the medicine will be diminished. But how do you explain to people that their leaders and their teachers are insane? ...such mental confusion fully corresponds with the end of Kali Yuga... Most people hate the messenger who brings knowledge... let them at least remember the warning that humanity is acting insanely. The Thinker warned, “Do not fall into madness.”"

"I believed all along, one day everyone would go mad just to see me sane."

"Sanity is the realism required for psychic survival."

"Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results"

"It is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society"

"Racism is not something that is designated as an illness that can be treated by mental health professionals."

"Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage..."

"The only people who have an official confirmation that they are sane are those who have been released from psychiatric hospitals."

"HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession."

"Homeopathy is the safest and more reliable approach to ailments and has withstood the assaults of established medical practice for over 100 years."

"Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other form of treatment and is beyond doubt safer and more economical."

"The powers of the placebo are so strong that it may be morally wrong to call homeopathy a lie because the moment you say it then a placebo falls to pieces and loses its power."

"There are no longer two types of medicine, orthodox and complementary, ... There is only good medicine and bad medicine."

"[Homeopathy] is a subject which makes me more wrath, even than does Clair-voyance: clairvoyance so transcends belief, that one’s ordinary faculties are put out of question, but in Homœopathy common sense & common observation come into play, & both these must go to the Dogs, if the infinetesimal doses have any effect whatever. How true is a remark I saw the other day by Quetelet, in respect to evidence of curative processes, viz that no one knows in disease what is the simple result of nothing being done, as a standard with which to compare Homœopathy & all other such things."

"I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular."

"The NHS recently spent £10m refurbishing the London Homeopathic Hospital. The equivalent of 500 nurses' wages, blown on a handful of magic beans. That was your tax money. It was meant for saving lives."

"As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me."

"I also turn to homeopathic remedies for the treatment of indigestion, travel sickness, insomnia and hay fever just to name a few. Homeopathy offers a safe, natural alternative that causes no side effects or drug interactions."

"HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not."

"I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them."

"[I]f another citizen preferred to toy with death, and buy health in small parcels, to bribe death with a sugar pill to stay away, or go to the grave with all the original sweetners undrenched out of him, then the individual adopted the "like cures like" system, and called in a homeopath physician as being a pleasant friend of death's."

"Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.""

"Upper cervical chiropractic care is like the VIP treatment for your spine and nervous system. It's a specialized approach that focuses on the top two bones in your neck, known as the atlas and axis vertebrae. By making precise adjustments to these crucial areas, upper cervical chiropractors aim to restore proper alignment and function to your entire body. This can have a ripple effect throughout your nervous system, helping to alleviate pain, improve mobility, and enhance overall well-being."

"A chiropractor is a health care professional focused on the determination and therapy of neuromuscular problems, with an emphasis on therapy through manual adjustment and/or manipulation of the spine."

"Just as soon as the colored boys found out that a science had been developed for manipulating the bones they all wanted to take it up."