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Quotes About Prevention

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.
~ Sue Townsend
Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.
~ Paul A. Offit
One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.
~ George W. Bush
Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Wellness is cheaper than illness. It costs us time and money when children get sick.
~ Thomas Carper
Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.
~ Joycelyn Elders
That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which is extremely costly and must be taken into account.
~ Thabo Mbeki
Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not just a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family issue.
~ Bill Richardson
I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.
~ Tracey Gold
The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~
~ Thomas A. Edison
As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
~ Adelle Davis
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
~ Roy Keane
To me, every person who smoked was voluntarily killing themselves, and doing it quite openly.
~ Chrissie Wellington
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
~ Germany Kent
Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.
~ Hippocrates
The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
~ Michelle Alexander
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.
~ Aristotle
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.
~ William Rathje
A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.
~ Thorstein Veblen
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
~ Gregory Bateson
Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.
~ John F. Kerry
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it
~ George Washington