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Quotes About Prevention

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
~ William Lyon Mackenzie King
The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.
~ Henry Knox
The best way to prevent the homegrown-inspired attacks is literally positive engagement with Muslim communities. Making sure that any immigrant population that comes into America assimilates, becomes part of our culture. That has been our history; it has made us strong.
~ Ron Johnson
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
~ Blaise Pascal
If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
~ Austan Goolsbee
My business is to prevent the future.
~ Ray Bradbury
When fully implemented, the EPA's Clean Power Plan will prevent up to 6,600 premature deaths and 150,000 juvenile asthma attacks annually.
~ Brian Deese
The final objective is not to distribute the migrants among various European countries but to prevent them from entering Europe and from departing from Africa. We need to intervene in Africa. We need to have a Marshall Plan for Africa to improve living conditions in the countries of origin.
~ Matteo Salvini
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.
~ John Yoo
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
~ Tryon Edwards
The Background Check Expansion Act will help prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands, and combat senseless gun violence.
~ Alex Padilla
A lot of people have forgotten the severity of this disease, of HIV. So I think it's important that we just talk about things like this: how we can prevent it, how we can make sure that people are safe, how they can move forward, too, if they do have HIV.
~ Mj Rodriguez
A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.
~ Aisha Tyler
After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?
~ Daniel Naroditsky
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
~ Ahmed Chalabi
The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.
~ George M. Church
We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.
~ Joel Fuhrman
What has helped me prevent injuries is being connected and having my body aligned. Every morning, I roll out and then work on my core and my balance.
~ Julia Mancuso
None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.
~ Damian Lewis
I've read about actors trying to prevent their kids from getting into it, and I think that's from what they themselves experienced in the industry.
~ Dan Levy
Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack.
~ Timothy Murphy
I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.
~ Shawn Johnson
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
~ Tony Campolo