Prevention Quotes

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. (John Ruskin)
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. View quote
Thomas Edison
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe. View quote
Luc Montagnier
The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good. View quote
Horace Mann
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. View quote
Margaret Sanger
Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education. View quote
Jane Fonda
Armenians, as a people that have survived the Genocide, have a moral duty towards mankind and history in the prevention of genocides. We have done and will continue to do our best to support the persistent implementation of the Genocide Convention. Genocide cannot concern only one people, because it is a crime against humanity. View quote
Serzh Sargsyan
We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. (David Agus)
Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. View quote
Michael Fox
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention. View quote
Anne Wojcicki
Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. View quote
Kyle Shewfelt
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. View quote
Lois Capps
You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude. View quote
Marie Osmond
The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries. View quote
Richard Neal
Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible and available in their workplace, through their health provider, and in their communities. View quote
Rob Wittman
Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it. View quote
Rosalind Wiseman
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention. (Tom Harkin)
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy. View quote
Alfred de Zayas