Tuberculosis

Woodrow Wilson Politician

"The cure for bad politics is the same as the cure for tuberculosis. It is living in the open."

Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist

"The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil."

Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

"The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured."