Famous quotes containing the words disease, matters and/or belonging:
“In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
—Barbara Tuchman (19121989)
“... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“So I wasnt dreaming, after all, she said to herself, unlessunless were all part of the same dream. Only I do hope its my dream, and not the Red Kings! I dont like belonging to another persons dream, she went on in a rather complaining tone: Ive a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)