Ophthalmologist

🇺🇸Rand Paul

Politics

b. 1963

"We have people coming in by the millions...Am I absolutely opposed to immigration? No...We have to find a way to believe in the rule of law, believe in border control and at the same time, not villify the issue."

Bashar al-Assad

Politics

b. 1965

"I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria."

🇦🇹Alfred Adler

Medicine

Neo-Freudianism

1870–1937

"Man knows much more than he understands."

José Rizal

Politics

Propaganda Movement

1861–1896

"No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being."

🇺🇸Charles Horace Mayo

Medicine

1865–1939

"I abhor vivisection. It should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery, that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil."

🇦🇺Fred Hollows

Medicine

1929–1993

"Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts."

Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

Politics

b. 1952

"Alhamdulillah, the transition of power was carried out peacefully. We are asking for the people to be patient as there will be an even better transition in store. Right now the country is facing debt issues."