Patch Adams Quotes

We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

I look at history, there's not a government on the planet I respect. No country in history was ever safe to its women; internet sex is $100 billion a year industry, and 15-20 million men a day have sex with a child in sexual slavery.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

One cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the community, from the health of the world.

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease.

If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.

My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.

For me, spiritual means love in action. So if you are working for love, then you are a spiritual person.