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Umberto Veronesi

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“In illness, pain for its own sake should never be accepted and should be countered by any means. Illness must increase, not decrease, respect for the individual's freedom, self-determination, and personality.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A waiting list thousands of names long is ethically unacceptable. On the contrary, living transplantation is morally permissible, as well as meritorious, which today is also a simple and harmless surgical practice, just as the condition of those who find themselves living with only one kidney is practically risk-free.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A state law, the one on transplants, voted by a very large majority in the incumbent parliament, has been overturned by obtuse and irresponsible statements. Superficial statements dictated by ignorance of the issue that risk jeopardizing the work done so far to give thousands of sick citizens hope for life and to relieve their families of heavy daily anguish.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is too simplistic to believe that a child, in order to grow up in a balanced way, needs the presence of a father and mother of a different sex. No scientific research shows that being the children of homosexuals is dangerous to the acquisition of one's gender identity. The truth is that society needs time to adapt to change: just think of what happened 30 years ago to the children of separated people, who felt uncomfortable and tried to hide their reality. Now, however, being the children of separated people is almost normal.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our organism, like that of monkeys, is programmed precisely for the consumption of fruits, vegetables and legumes. A meat-free diet certainly wouldn't weaken us: think of the gorilla's physical power. And let's think about the newborn, who in the first few months quadruples his weight by feeding only on milk. Not only would a diet of fruits and vegetables be good for us, but it would serve precisely to keep diseases at bay.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My commitment to vegetarianism has not only scientific and medical foundations, but also philosophical ones. Indeed, he was born in me as a child from love and respect for life in all its forms, especially when he cannot defend himself and assert his reasons. I have never endured the captivity of the farms and the cruelty of slaughter. Avoiding meat is a way to avoid the unnecessary suffering of animals.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Commenting on the Supreme Court ruling authorizing the interruption of treatment for Eluana Englaro) The Supreme Court ruling does not sanction the victory of scientists, nor of lay people, nor of any political faction, but of citizens and the principles of the Constitution that protect their freedom. And once again, judges demonstrate their loyalty to the Constitution, and their intellectual independence from ideological pressures. Because precisely the rights of all citizens to individual freedom we are talking about. By "all" I mean believers and non-believers.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The very principle of the hospital must not revolve around the needs of the doctor but those of the patient.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you are a good conformist and respect the rules, no ideas come.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have become convinced that every religion expresses the need for a certain population at that historical moment.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science and faith cannot go together, because faith presupposes blind belief in something revealed in the past, a kind of legend that still persists today, without criticizing it, without the right to question mysteries and dogmas [...].”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Smoking is more deadly than alcohol and drugs: 50,000 deaths from lung cancer each year. Those who start at 15 risk cancer at 45.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The philosopher Singer, who is one of the greatest advocates of animals, coined a term called "speciesism," which comes from racism. For centuries we have been anti-racist, but now we are starting to be anti-speciesist, that is, we don't want to, we don't think it's right for one species, the human one in particular, to take over and attack other species. This antispecism began to be an important philosophical movement and with the participation of many valuable philosophers.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I created an institute, the European Institute of Oncology, where animals are not used. If you search everywhere, search the entire institute, you won't find a place where there are laboratory animals.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Homosexual love is the purest love, unlike heterosexual love, which is instrumental to reproduction.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true innovator is a big pain in the ass, he doesn't like anything and he has to change the rules, he has to change his habits, he has to redo an organization and we are often not prepared.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The commitment of a medical class more sensitive to human aspects is necessary, which must care not only about the body, but also about the mind. The mind is the place where medicine is perceived.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[The government is rowing] against e-cigarettes, with an incredible 58 percent tax rate that has caused many producers to disappear [...] [while thanks to e-cigarettes] 30,000 people could be saved a year in Italy alone. [...] Of course, the state makes more money from traditional cigarettes, it profits from this tragedy, but then it is forced to spend three billion every year to treat the 50,000 cancers that develop in Italy due to smoking.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] now faced with increased infertility, both male and female, and procreation that is increasingly advanced over the years, we must find solutions. And the simplest is medically assisted procreation. (during an event to present the collaboration between the Veronesi Foundation and Aquae Venice 2015, Milan, March 2015)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If a person has a loving drive for their children, whether they are genetically his or not, it is very legitimate, whether they are gay or single couples. (during an event to present the collaboration between the Veronesi Foundation and Aquae Venice 2015, Milan, March 2015).”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many will want to know if in this reflection of mine, and study, and commit myself incessantly to so many causes I have found the meaning of life. Yes, I have an answer: life perhaps has no meaning. But that's exactly why we spend our lives looking for one. The important thing is not to know, but to seek.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Getting a child used to adopting a vegetarian diet from weaning [...] means giving him an indisputable health advantage, because it provides him with a strong and long-lasting defense against many diseases of adulthood.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eliminating animal fats is always a lifesaver.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After Auschwitz, cancer is proof that God does not exist.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Milanese people are productive, with a profound ethical vision of work, a strong sense of social justice, the transmission of well-being to future generations, and with total respect for civilization, rights, tolerance, and solidarity.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have reached the conclusion that what we eat is responsible for a large number of tumors, and that certain foods trigger cancer while others have a protective value. Meat and its derivatives figure among carcinogenic foods of the intestines. Meat, in fact, is particularly rich in saturated fatty acids, substances that lead to damaging activity in regard to our bodies in general. Furthermore, certain forms of tumors, such as intestinal cancer, are directly correlated to the consumption of meat, while others, such as endometrial tumors, are linked to obesity.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to consider that the foods we ingest let a certain amount of soluble toxic substances dispersed in the environment into our bodies. These polluting substances are harmful if we breathe them in, but they are even more so if we ingest them. By consuming meat, we put ourselves precisely in that position, because such substances in the atmosphere fall back to Earth, and hence, onto the grass that, when eaten by cattle, introduces harmful substances into their adipose deposits and therefore into their flesh, and finally, onto our plates.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It should be remembered that the pharmacologic treatment of raised farm animals can cause damage to the health of anyone who eats their meat. For example, the antibiotics that are legally added to animal feed—with the objective of preventing infections—can cause a resistance to antibiotics in humans. That is to say, a selection of bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics can be transmitted from animals to man through food; and can thereby generate infections difficult to stop (at times fatal, as with salmonella).”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fruit and vegetables, instead, are foods extremely low in fats and high in fiber: by easing the passage of ingested food, they reduce the time of contact between possible carcinogens—present in our daily diet—with the walls of the intestines.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prevention is within reach of everyone. And here are recommendations: abstain from smoking, eat less, eat mostly vegetarian foods, an active mind and body, and follow individually designed early diagnostic regimens.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man is free to choose his own destiny and also to decide to end his own life, if the suffering becomes intolerable to the point of reducing the level of human dignity below the threshold of acceptability. (p. 118)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I am even more convinced that, in order not to achieve euthanasia, whether passive or active, there is a fundamental goal to achieve: preventing the desire for death by doing everything possible to ensure that the patient, especially the terminally ill, does not reach such a state of suffering.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If it is treated well, the patient hardly asks to die. If he is cared for with affection, with love, without pain, he will not ask for a good death. (p. 119)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience has taught me that man, when he wishes to reach a goal, finds unthinkable resources within himself. (p. 219)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(Margherita Hack) She is the icon of free thought and nonconformism [...]. (p. 70)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[We doctors] Wear the mask of conviviality on our faces –to reassure, encourage, give hope– and carry within us the nihilism of the helpless witness in the face of tragedy. (p. 104)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Children are immortality. Children will have more children and therefore life never ends. Our body dies, but our DNA continues. *Children have the same flesh, the same metabolism, and so on. Death is only that of the body.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is much to believe: the strength of human values that the brain has progressively developed over the millennia to achieve ethical consciousness.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I consider it a shame not to keep a commitment, to take an incorrect and ethically illegitimate action towards another person.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think I've been a successful man, because when I was a recent graduate and first set foot at the Cancer Institute, I was counting, with a whole life ahead of me, on winning cancer. Instead, cancer is not defeated.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are here only by chance, purely by chance.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Early man, lacking knowledge to explain the phenomena around him, was naturally inclined to conceive of a higher power. Today there is no longer any need for religions.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Moving away from religion has made me mature.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humans are the result of the evolution, which lasted millions of years, from the first amino acid molecule to us. *Psychologically, I believe we are the product of a number of dilemmas that for centuries we have perceived and left unresolved. First of all, the difficulty in understanding the meaning of life, that is, why we are on this earth.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that big choices should be made in conditions of total awareness. Enlisting a newborn in any religion is a subtle abuse for me.”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being vegetarian is the expression of a philosophy of life that excludes all forms of bullying and always privileges respect for all living beings. There is also an ethical conscience, an awareness of the principles of environmental sustainability, a desire to express love for the planet, and a culture of nonviolence. (pp. 8-9)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Meat consumption is the primary factor responsible for food injustice and causes half the world to fall ill and die from too much food and the other half from its scarcity. (p. 13)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] in general, 30% of cancers are due to a diet too high in animal fats. Furthermore, some forms, such as intestinal cancer, are directly related to meat consumption while others, such as endometrial cancer, are linked to obesity. (p. 20)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many vegetarians wonder whether it is right from a health perspective to eliminate meat from their children's diets, fearing that some substances in the carnivorous diet are essential for their growth. It's an understandable fear, but unfounded. (p. 23)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The typical American diet, rich in meat and low in other foods, produces an accumulation of sex hormones in children that lead them to increasingly anticipate sexual maturation, even at the age of eight. Vegetarian girls, on the other hand, typically menstruate later than omnivores, and this in adulthood is a protective factor against cancer. (p. 23)”
Umberto Veronesi (1925–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source