Words matter. These are the best Ills Quotes from famous people such as Abraham Cowley, David Perlmutter, Albert Claude, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Larry McMurtry, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
This low-fat idea that’s been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won’t start.
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate – A thousand years of Middle Life.
The only way governments or would-be governments respond to ills these days is by seeking to lower the temperature… and that tends to mean public spending.
Though involvement in music and the arts can’t cure all the ills of society, I do believe that the inspiration they provide has the potential to help us reflect, at times, on the better angels of our natures.
Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
We need to organise unapologetically anti-racist campaigns in our communities, ones that emphasise the fact that the blame for social ills lies with the powerful.
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
The problem with literature, with writing, is that it works sometimes in terms of correction of social ills. Other times, it just does not suffice.
Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world’s ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Diplomatic eminences often natter on about preventive action, making the obvious point that it’s better to cure festering ills before they metastasize into something much worse.
These 21st-century ‘teavangelicals,’ who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were concerned with societal ills such as temperance, slavery, the rise of industrialisation and suffrage.
Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
In the future, people will blame the Eighties for all societal ills in the same way that people have previously blamed the Sixties. The various Thatcherite Big Bangs – monetarism, deregulation, libertarianism – have been working their way through the culture ever since.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy – like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society’s ills.
I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all the corruption and problems.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India’s constitutional ills.
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.
Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.
‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
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.
Unfortunately, the Hindi film industry is a sitting duck; it is easy to hurl malevolent accusations. It is a systematic campaign to divert attention from real issues, failing economy, China border tensions, spiraling Covid cases, and farmers’ agitation by putting the spotlight on the supposed ills of the film industry.
It’s so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren’t able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won’t.
Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
One of the benefits of working outside the U.K. is that I don’t have to keep fielding media/politicians’ enquiries about ‘Britishness’ and its ills.
Our job as artists is to reflect the ills of society sometimes and to find a truth in that, and I think you can’t start the healing process until you recognize the truth and all of its ugly warts and all.
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
My father said I should become a doctor and do science in my spare time, which in retrospect might not have been a bad idea, but I wasn’t interested in taking care of people’s ills.
Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation’s ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
You must keep in mind that Pakistan has suffered the aftermaths of the Cold War, and that Cold War had left deep imprints on our society. We were the worst sufferers from the ills of the Afghan war.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society’s ills.
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries’ failure to advance.
People will always blame the poets for society’s ills. But these are the true artists.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, ‘infidels’, for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?