Patch Adams
Patch Adams
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adamsis an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! Institute in 1971. Each year he organizes a group of volunteers from around the world to travel to various countries where they dress as clowns in an effort to bring humor to orphans, patients, and other people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
compassion doctors cures
If you actually are a doctor and admitted it, you'd say, 'I don't cure a huge percentage, I don't have a 50 percent cure rate .. (but) I can have a 100 percent compassion rate,'.
change compassion extinct money power society worships
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
men thinking compassion
We men should be ashamed of ourselves. I think 85 percent of men are dangerous to women. We need to change to a values system nested in compassion and generosity, and women have carried that torch throughout history.
thinking compassion government
I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
bring harmony work
My work is to end violence, and to bring harmony to people,
love patients sue
We love our patients and our patients love us. You don't sue someone you love.
brilliant people rules
You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply,
adult influence pain paradigm serious shouting
And yet the influence of the adult world--this is the pain paradigm shouting -- serious is what you want to be taken,
belonged owed
they owed something; we wanted them to feel they belonged to something.
engaging giving instantly people reason sad
They had every reason to be sad and angry, yet people were instantly friendly, engaging and giving.
kids giving messages
All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.
helping-others giving people
We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.
spiritual political rage
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.
encouragement writing healthy
No one ever writes me and says, 'We have a happy hospital'. Nowhere is doing it in a healthy way. That's encouragement for me.