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Quotes About Prevention

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
~ Carl Sagan
This will rise to ten million annual deaths by 2020—in part because of a massive advertising campaign to portray smoking as advanced and fashionable to young women in the developing world.
~ Carl Sagan
According to the World Health Organization, smoking kills three million people every year worldwide.
~ Carl Sagan
As in all such technological nightmares, the principal task is to foresee what is possible; to educate use and misuse; and to prevent its organizational, bureaucratic and governmental abuse.
~ Carl Sagan
the hopeless sense of a civilization destroyed for nothing; the knowledge that we could have prevented it and did not.
~ Carl Sagan
Those who ignore the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them in the future, but no one believes it.
~ Terry Brooks
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.
~ Terry Pratchett
Do unto others before they do unto you.
~ Terry Pratchett
we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.
~ The Arbinger Institute
The pyramid suggests that we should spend much more time and effort helping things go right than dealing with things that are going wrong.
~ The Arbinger Institute
Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Friends don't let friends jump cars.
~ John Schneider
I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.
~ Jimmy Graham
The important thing is this Just because I'm doing well doesn't mean that they're going to do well if they get HIV. A lot of people have died since I have announced. This disease is not going anywhere.
~ Magic Johnson
My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.
~ Ayelet Waldman
Cancer is a cruel killer. It creeps up on us when we aren't expecting it. But cake is not cancer. A doughnut does not creep up on you.
~ Katie Hopkins
Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Two of my bread and butters are my ankle and knee. That's why I always wore high-tops. I had to protect my ankles no matter if I taped my ankles or wore ankle braces. I gotta protect my ankles. Gotta protect the money maker. That's why I've always rocked the Air Force 1s. Of course, I put in orthotics in there 'cause these joints is flat.
~ Rasheed Wallace
Knife crime devastates communities.
~ Theresa May
Asics shoes are known to be the best in the world and I am sure they will limit some of the injuries that I had before.
~ Gael Monfils
There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's not enough just to buy condoms, Cassidy; you have to use them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I want to keep her from ever changing into something so terrible as I've become.
~ Karen Marie Moning