Quotes About Prevention

Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to?

You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms. Joe Morelli

My father never got the memo about red meat, colonoscopies, or heart disease. His philosophy was that if you never went to the doctor, you never found out there was something wrong with you. So far it was working for him.

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe.

Unfortunately, many parents reject helmets for their kids out of a mistaken perception that helmets are unsafe for children.

We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.

Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.

The GAVI Alliance has achieved many things in its first dozen years, but none more important than helping save more than 5.5 million lives and prevent untold illness and suffering.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial.

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.

Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.