Quotes about Prevention

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.

God did not excuse Abraham's sin, but He did not let that stop Him from intervening in Abimelech's mind to prevent the serious consequences of the sin.

None of us plan--or intend--to get into trouble. The problem is, we don't plan not to.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

But the power problem has its roots in anatomy and biochemistry and temperament. Power has to be curbed on the legal and political levels; that's obvious. But it's also obvious that there must be prevention on the individual level. On the level of instinct and emotion, on the level of the glands and the viscera, the muscles and the blood. If I can ever find the time, I'd like to write a little book on human physiology in relation to ethics, religion, politics and law.

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I've concluded that while nobody plans to mess up their life, the problem is that a few of us plan not to. That is, we don't put the necessary safeguards in place to ensure a happy ending.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.