prevention quotes

Polio’s pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it’s just there as a gift for the rest of time.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

Precaution is better than cure.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

My business is to prevent the future.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.