Quotes about Prevention

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we stand with our allies against common threats like terrorism, radicalization, and poverty; and when we unite to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.

There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.