Quotes about Prevention

Hearing protection is a sound investment.

Accidents hurt — safety doesn't.

Drunk driving is a killer disease.

The physician who teaches people to sustain their health is the superior physician. The physician who waits to treat people until after their health is lost is considered to be inferior. This is like waiting until one's family is starving to begin to plant seeds in the garden.

If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.