John Harvey Kellogg

“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.”

“The bowels are the most abused and neglected of all the organs of the body.”

“Exercise, to be of any value, must be regular, systematic, and vigorous.”

“Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by preying on other animals; but this is a miserable way.”

“Nature has put into the body of man a most wonderful repair shop.”

“The stomach is the master of the house. If the stomach is not in order, the whole house is in disorder.”

“The human body is the most wonderful of all machines.”

“Tobacco is a deadly poison. It is a narcotic. It is a filth-producing, disease-producing, and vice-producing weed.”

“The purpose of the doctor is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

“Man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the Empire State Building but foolish enough to stand on the top of it and smoke a cigarette.”