"Verteilungs- und beschäftigungspolitische Zielsetzungen dürfen als Begründung für eine weitere Beschränkung der individuellen Freiheit nicht herangezogen werden, es sei denn, es wird (…) das Bild eines unmündigen Patienten, der letztendlich auch unmündiger Bürger werden muss, zum Leitbild der Gesundheitspolitik erhoben."
"One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person."
"The best diseases, from a business point of view, would be those that cause lingering illnesses. Ideally – that is, for maximum profit – the patient should either get well or die just before all of his or her money runs out. It’s a fine calculation."
"Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic materialism of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism."