Leprosy quotes
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus."
"Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world."
"A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country."
"The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance."
"There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers."
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"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals"
