Quotes About Prevention

I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.

Obviously it was happenstance, but it did change my opinion of human nature. I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them. It's an atavistic thing, buried deep in our DNA.

Deep within me there is a radical, intimate, bitter and incessant boredom which prevents me from enjoying anything and which smothers my soul. It reappears at any excuse, just as the swollen corpses of drowned dogs pop to the surface despite the stones that have been tied round their necks

You can't light a match, then act surprised when your house burns down.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older.

It didn't take a Harvard economist to figure out that it'd be a hell of a lot cheaper spending money on helping keep kids safe when they were younger than it was to put them in jail when they were older. That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

More women are murdered by their intimate partners than by any other group.

That was the American way, though. Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but God forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

Spend a million dollars rescuing some kid who's fallen down a well, but god forbid you spend a hundred bucks up front to cap the well so the kid never falls down it in the first place.

There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening

A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

Every man over 40 should have a PSA test each year.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously - and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

A new medical study reports that men who eat ten pizzas a week are less likely to develop prostate problems at age 50. That's because they are usually dead by age 40.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'