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Healthy People Quotes

What keeps communities well, and what puts them at risk

This page collects healthy people quotes about healthy homes, environment, and how public health is a shared, not private, matter. See also Disease quotes.

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in...

Quotes by William Foege

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

Quotes by Patty Jenkins

Stadiums can be places where people of different colour come to support their teams, or they can be seen as stagnant areas where healthy people will be infected by racism.

Quotes by Kevin-Prince Boateng

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and...

Quotes by Ivan Illich

Best Quotes

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors...

Quotes by Irwin Redlener

We're all flawed, but basically, effective managers are people whose flaws are not fatal under the circumstances. Maybe the best managers are simply ordinary, healthy people who aren't too screwed up.

Quotes by Henry Mintzberg

This enzyme, called telomerase, slows the rate at which telomeres degrade, and research indicates that healthy people with longer telomeres have less risk of developing the common illnesses of aging - like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, which are three...

Quotes by Elizabeth Blackburn

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

Quotes by Bernie Siegel

Most healthy people want to coach Little League, they want to go to church and they want to have great coworkers at the office and they want to put on faceplate when Nebraska's point football on Saturdays. That's the most...

Quotes by Ben Sasse

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these healthy people quotes emphasize?
They emphasize that public health depends on healthy homes, shared environments, and community-level factors, not just individual choices.
Do these quotes treat illness as a private matter?
No, one quote argues that even something like the flu is not a private matter because it affects the wider population's health.
How is environment connected to health in these quotes?
One quote links healthy homes and diet to fitness for birth, growth, healing, and daily life without bureaucratic interference.
Do any quotes mention risks in public or shared spaces?
Yes, one quote describes stadiums as places that could either unite people or expose healthy people to harms like racism.
Where can I read more about disease and health risks?
For related themes, see Disease quotes, which expands on the health risks touched on here.

Other lines note how shared spaces like stadiums can either support wellbeing or expose people to harm. Readers may also like Failure quotes for related cautionary themes.