Again, conventional Catholicism does not... at BrainyQuote

Select Paul Farmer Quotations

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
Paul Farmer

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.
Paul Farmer

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
Paul Farmer

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
Paul Farmer

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.
Paul Farmer

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.
Paul Farmer

I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.
Paul Farmer

All Paul Farmer Quotations

Words

Again, Appeal, Catholicism, Conventional, Does, Much

Definitions

Again, Appeal, Catholicism, Conventional, Does, Much