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A Collection of Quotes for the Health Educator
"When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable."
Emile Durkheim 1858-1917, French social scientist.1
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To M.N. @ LA University in Hammond:
"If I am not for myself, who will be?
But if I am only for myself, who am I?"
"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow;
where I choose to walk, every step will show."
"If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
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| "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Langston Hughes
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"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless" -B.F. Skinner
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
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| "You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it"
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"Let your reason, not your senses, be the rule of your conduct; for reason will teach you to think wisely, to speak prudently and to behave yourself worthily on all occasions."
- Confucius
551?-479? B.C., Chinese philosopher, statesman, and adviser for various feudal lords.
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"It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
4 B.C.-A.D. 65, Roman writer, philosopher, and politician.
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"Slogans that teach young people to "say no" to drugs or sex have a nice ring to them. But ... they are as effective in prevention of adolescent pregnancy and drug abuse as the saying "Have a nice day" is in preventing clinical depression...."
Michael Carrera, EdD,
at the hearings of the Presidential Commission on AIDS
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"Love your enemies, just in case your friends turn out to be bunch of bastards"
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"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself."
*Muhammad Ali* |
Some short Zingers:
"People don't ask for facts in making up their minds.
They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts."
- Robert Keith Leavitt
"The best way to lose weight is to get the flu and take a trip to Egypt."
- Roz Lawrence
"Life is infinitely stranger than the mind of man can imagine."
- A. Conan Doyle
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
- Confucius
"If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish."
- Lenny Bruce
"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar,
and use it up in two weeks."
- John Barrymore
"Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly."
- U. Peter
"The best way to get most husbands to do something
is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
- Anne Bancroft
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| Back to the Center of Excellence in Education for Health @ healthbehavior.com |
| 1. Should health educators be in the business of changing policy (i.e., seat belt laws, smoking laws, fat consumption policy)? Are we convinced that educational intervention doesn't work? Maybe we didn't do it correctly? Maybe we feel more comfortable making, pushing for, policy? Maybe pushing the policy agenda should be called "policy pushing," not health education? What happened to the concepts of "volunteer participants" in the health education definition? Does policy allow for "volunteer participation?
We need to get back to using behavior change intervention strategies, for VOLUNTEER PARTICIPANTS, that include emphasis on values, attitudes, beliefs and feelings as these can impact mores.
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