Michael G. Marmot > Quotes

“But people’s ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“At the end of every scientific paper there is a familiar coda: more research is needed, more research is needed. What, I wondered, if we added a new coda: more action is needed. It need not be discordant with the first.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“Most of us cherish the notion of free choice, but our choices are constrained by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“A prime way of giving children a good start in life is to help their parents. There”
― Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

“To criticise inequality and to desire equality is not, as is sometimes suggested, to cherish the romantic illusion that men are equal in character and intelligence. It is to hold that, while their natural endowments differ profoundly, it is the mark of a civilised society to aim at eliminating such inequalities as have their source not in individual differences but in (social) organisation. R. H. Tawney1”
― Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity

“Wilde’s definition of a cynic (someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing), and”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World