The Health Gap Quotes

“But people’s ability to take personal responsibility is shaped by their circumstances. People cannot take responsibility if they cannot control what happens to them.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“At the end of every scientific paper there is a familiar coda: more research is needed, more research is needed. What, I wondered, if we added a new coda: more action is needed. It need not be discordant with the first.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“Most of us cherish the notion of free choice, but our choices are constrained by the conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age.”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

“Wilde’s definition of a cynic (someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing), and”
― Michael G. Marmot, The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World