Lili Kyurkchiyska

“relationship with nature, modern humanity has generally been the aggressor, and a daring one at that, altering the flow of rivers, building upon geological faults, and, today, even engineering the genes of existing species. Nature has generally been languid in its response, although contentious once aroused and occasionally displaying a flair for violence. By 1918 humankind was fully modern, and fully scientific, but too busy fighting itself to aggress against nature. Nature, however, chooses its own moments. It chose this moment to aggress against man, and it did not do so prodding languidly. For the first time, modern humanity, a humanity practicing the modern scientific method, would confront nature in its fullest rage.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“Никой сериозен социолог вече не смята, че гласът на народа изразява някаква божествена или особено мъдра и възвишена идея. Гласът на народа изразява съзнанието на народа, а то от своя страна е моделирано от груповите лидери, в които народът вярва, и от тези, които умеят да манипулират общественото мнение. То е съставено от унаследените предразсъдъци, символи, клишета и словесни формули, предоставени от лидерите.”
― Edward Bernays, Propaganda

“In the United States, no government, institution, or philanthropist even began to approach a similar level of support. As the Hopkins medical school was opening, American theological schools enjoyed endowments of $18 million, while medical school endowments totaled $500,000.”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“doctors were policing women who stepped outside society’s strictly defined gender spheres—work and intellect for men, home and children for women—in what could be described as a “medicalization of female behavior.”
― Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear