The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Belief cannot be reckoned with in terms of science, for science and faith are mutually exclusive.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.