“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”
“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”
“but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”
“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”
“Youth is a disease from which we all recover.”