Quotes of Quackery - somelinesforyou

“ Quackery has no friend like gullibility. ”

- Unknown

“ From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash — Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. ”

- George Crabbe

“ Out, you impostors! Quack salving, cheating mountebanks! your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. ”

- Philip Massinger

“ Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc… ”

- Henry Miller
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