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“The practice of medicine is a political act however you choose to do it.”
“So will they only sell their exploits to good Western governments?” He repeated my words back to me. “Good Western governments?” I slumped so low in my seat, I was sure my head wasn’t even showing. The words were even more humiliating coming out of an Argentine’s mouth.”
― This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
― This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
“Still, most testimonies focus on creativity as a form of defiance—the dogged fortitude with which many attempt to pursue art, or music, or writing, or poetry, serves as an antidote to the pointlessness of their “real” paid work.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“NC: You’re right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, “Let’s save the survivors”; they said, “Let someone else pay for saving the survivors.” IP: Exactly. NC: This tells you something about the West, the deeply rooted imperial mentality that affects the West like a plague. Yes, there are these people living in misery. We are the ones able to help them, but we are not going to even raise that possibility. Somebody else, who does not have the capacity, they have to suffer for it.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“I have come to believe that we desire hope, but what we really need is meaning. Hopelessness arises in dire situations, and being hopeful is not always rational or possible. Meaninglessness, though, is death before death. Reminding someone of the meaning of their life, even if they can’t be cured, can be transformative. Hope and meaning. Two powerful motivating forces in Medicine and in life.”
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
― How Medicine Works and When It Doesn't: Learning Who to Trust to Get and Stay Healthy
“Endeavors focused on AIDS, though crucial, must be linked to efforts to empower poor women. The much-abused term “empower” is not meant vaguely here; empowerment is not a matter of self-esteem or even of parliamentary representation. Those choosing to make common cause with poor women must help them gain control over their own lives. Control of lives is related to control of land, systems of production, and the formal political and legal structures in which lives are enmeshed. In each of these arenas, poor people overall are already laboring at a vast disadvantage; the voices of poor women in particular are almost unheard.”
― Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
― Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
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