I mean, I can see a poverty of ambition, a poverty of dignity, a poverty of vision. But I can't see poverty as a lack of material wealth, especially not here. What I see are wealthy people with a poverty of ambition.Dr. 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.Dr. Paul Farmer
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.Dr. Paul Farmer
Dying is not a technical problem.Dr. Paul Farmer
People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say – and they want you to hear it.Tracy Kidder
Dr. Farmer was right about one thing: You can make a whole lot of difference in the world with very little.Tracy Kidder
The biggest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us.Dr. Paul Farmer
What's most important are the needs of the people being served, and one has to be guided by that principle – and that principle alone – to have any chance of achieving success.Dr. Paul Farmer
At the end of the day, health is a right, not a privilege.Dr. Paul Farmer
There's a real shift in the world when you take a guy who's been suffering from AIDS, who's been on the margins of society, and you say to him 'You have a right to be healthy, you have a right to life.'Tracy Kidder