Quotes About Prevention

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

Bite them before they Bite you.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

My Dad was overweight and unhealthy, and he died young. I wasn't going to let that happen to me.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.

I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.

Suicide is very contagious.

Despite their common origins, and the shared desire for an effective approach, Lauterpacht and Lemkin were sharply divided as to the solutions they proposed to a big question: How could the law help to prevent mass killing? Protect the individual, says Lauterpacht. Protect the group, says Lemkin.

Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi.

But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong which cannot be undone; he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again. He punishes for the sake of prevention, thereby clearly implying that virtue is capable of being taught.

If understanding is impossible, knowing is imperative, because what happened could happen again.

Ich glaube, in den Schrecken des Dritten Reichs ein einzigartiges, exemplarisches, symbolisches Geschehen zu erkennen, dessen Bedeutung allerdings noch nicht erhellt wurde: die Vorankündigung einer noch größeren Katastrophe, die über der ganzen Menschheit schwebt und nur dann abgewendet werden kann, wenn wir alle es wirklich fertigbringen, Vergangenes zu begreifen, Drohendes zu bannen.

Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind.

We had succeeded in preventing Charles Stuart from getting money to finance his rebellion; and still the Bonnie Prince, reckless, feckless, and determined to claim his legacy, had landed to rally the clans at Glenfinnan.

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.