Quotes about Prevention

Resistance is a repelling force. It's negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race. Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Neither must he use himself to cut off actions only, but thoughts and imaginations also, that are unnecessary for so will unnecessary consequent actions the better be prevented and cut off.

if thou holdest to this, expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.

Winners understand that taking that pain now prevents a lot more pain later.

Many of the judgments we make of one another—judgments that cause great pain—are preventable, because they are based on misunderstanding