Norman Bethune Quotes

• Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

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  Justice   Charity   Should  

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution-the principle of life. He is an agitator, a disturber of the peace-quick, impatient, positive, restless and disquieting. He is the creative spirit of life working in the the soul of man.

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  Artist   Men   Creative  

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• Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism... Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How best can we serve you?

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  Jewels   Luxury   Medicine  

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• The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.

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  Dark   Artist   Way  

  1937 Letter from Madrid, 5 May. Quoted in Ted Allen and Sydney Gordon The Scalpel, The S word (1952).

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