Quotes to Bolster My Sense of Self Righteousness

Since I plan on ranting about all of my odd ideas I figured I would post some quotes that I could come back to when my flame proof underwear are wearing thin and my but is feeling sore.

Kind of like Preparation H for pundits.

So here go a few that have given me solace. I have not vetted them, but even if they are improperly attributed, I feel that the authors ascribed to the utterance would take credit for them anyway because they are so great.

These were lifted off an antivaccination site and so some of them address the seriously deranged field of medicine that I toil in every week.

“All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."… Schopenhauer

“We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession" … George Bernard Shaw

“What good fortune for those in power that the people do not think.”
"Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it."
“It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." … Adolf Hitler

"When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it" … J. Krishnamurti

"Fear of disease, fear of microorganisms, fear of the unknown, is the tool of the clever that keeps the weak in line" … Tim O'Shea, DC

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." …Thomas Edison

“The Laws of Ecology: "All things are interconnected. Everything goes somewhere. There's no such thing as a free lunch. Nature bats last." … Ernest Callenbach

“What a strange religion medicine makes. It's the only religion that is federally backed, and even amid scientific controversy, cannot be questioned openly without persecution or ridicule." ...unknown

“A good rule of thumb: Vitamin C should be given while the doctor ponders the diagnosis." … Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., F.C.C.P.

"HARM" seems to be intrinsic part of "pHARMa" ... unknown

“MD's are those who think we have an excess of organs and a deficiency of drugs” … Donna C.

“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease” … Voltaire

"Modern medicine" may well be defined as "the experimental study of what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished human bodies." … A. Saul - Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed…When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.” … Dresden James

"Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases." … Moliere

"He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
"God heals and the Doctor takes the fee." … Benjamin Franklin

"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them” … Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

“If you think that something is right just because everyone believes it, then you are not thinking" … Vievienne Westwood

“Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” … Winston Churchill

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." … Ghandi

“Your failure to be informed does not make me a wacko." … John Loeffler

“God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” … 1 Corinthians 1:27

“People change for two reasons, They either learn so much they want to or they hurt so bad they have to.” ... unknown

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ... James Madison

Well there you have them, gems every one. If you find them providing you solace then you too are probably a misfit and miscreant and you can come back any time for comfort and consolation. I will continue posting such pearls and welcome contribution to this list.