AIDS

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. – James Anderton

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. – Tryon Edwards

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. – Barbara Ehrenreich

We are all HIV-positive. – Diamanda Galas

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation. – Thom Gunn

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. – Joel Hawes

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable. – Amanda Heggs

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. – Princess Anne Ireland

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. – Anthony Perkins

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. – Susan Sontag

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our countrys immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. – Barbra Streisand

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War. – Edmund White