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I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory. — Paul Farmer

Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody. — Paul Farmer

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Paul Farmer

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others - or, in a word, partnership. — Paul Farmer

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be. — Paul Farmer

That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people. — Paul Farmer

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti. — Paul Farmer

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat. — Paul Farmer

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi. — Paul Farmer

Statistics or graphs,'" are not optimal to understand the 'experience of suffering.'" (qtd in Sutton 11) — Paul Farmer

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically. — Paul Farmer

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat. — Paul Farmer

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda. — Paul Farmer

In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work. — Paul Farmer

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right. — Paul Farmer

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor. — Paul Farmer

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money — Paul Farmer

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal. — Paul Farmer

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right. — Paul Farmer

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. — Paul Farmer

I can't sleep. There's always somebody not getting treatment. I can't stand that. — Paul Farmer

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world. — Paul Farmer

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? — Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths. — Paul Farmer

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem. — Paul Farmer

The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health. — Paul Farmer

I'm not an austere person. — Paul Farmer

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. — Paul Farmer

Equity is the only acceptable goal — Paul Farmer

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me. — Paul Farmer