Preventive Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery. — Deepak Chopra
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. — George Henry Borrow
This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse;… — Joseph Lancaster
You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for… — Cokie Roberts
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment… — Dalai Lama
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and… — James Madison
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research… — Pope Benedict XVI
I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of… — Jules Henry
Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and… — Tryon Edwards
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the… — Joseph Pilates
As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the… — Helen Caldicott
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment… — Michael Dean Crapo
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. — William Foege
Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health. — William Rathje
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer. — Marianne Williamson

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