Great quotes: Some great quotes for medicines, drugs

Dear Friends, we are the profession where we deal with medicine, drugs. We know these are for cure but what people see in the medicines, what some of the great people have said about the drugs, is indeed very intersting to know. I am presenting some of the selected quotes, I have recieved these from my friends, for which they have not quoted the resources they used, due to this I'll not be able to give the references. I'll try to get some more on my own & give the reseources in there. I hope till then you read these quotes & reply with your comments or qoutes which you may have.

• A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a licence to behave like an asshole. … Frank Zappa
• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. … P.J. O'Rourke
• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. … Malcolm Muggeridge
• Pharmaceutical companies will soon rule the world if we keep letting them believe we are a happy, functional society so long as all the women are on Prozac, all children on Ritalin, and all men on Viagra. … The Quote Garden
• Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. … John Hardwick
• Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system. … P.J. O'Rourke
• A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do. … Eric Hodgins •Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French General, Emperor)
• To live by medicine is to live horribly. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778, Swedish Botanist)
• Today's medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be transformed, modified, readjusted. That's been tried too often. Today's medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete renovation. …….. Maurice Delort
• We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering. Elisabeth KnBler-Ross (1926-, Swiss-born American Psychiatrist)
• "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." -- Rudyard Kipling
• "Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented." -- Leo Rosten, (Novelist)
• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)