Prevention Quotes - Page 3

• A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.

  Robert Graves

  Science, Medicine, May

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• Our system of mass incarceration is better understood as a system of racial and social control than a system of crime prevention or control.

  Michelle Alexander

  Crime, Social, Mass Incarceration

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Cruelty

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.233, SUNY Press

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• Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Love, Education, War

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.12, Templeton Foundation Press

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• If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such. After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies. The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels. Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

  Adam Gollner

  Military, Cancer, Men

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• Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

  Julie Bishop

  Support, Challenges, Recognition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Principles, Enforcement, Coercion

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• Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid in regulating the atmosphere, whose incessant action and pressure cause the life-blood to circulate, and to return pure and healthful to the heart of the nation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Suicide, Respect, No Respect

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• The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will say personally that my goal as surgeon general is to help build a culture of prevention in America so that we are a nation that is as good at preventing illness as we are at treating it.

  Vivek Murthy

  America, Goal, Information

  "Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.

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• We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Children, Real, Epidemics

  "Preventing Another Generation of Children With Autism" by Jenny McCarthy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Thinking, Osteoporosis, Effort

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• I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder...We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Children, Punishment, Roots

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• Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Class, Evil

  Abraham Lincoln (2017). “The Complete Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.905, Open Road Media

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• Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.

  Kyle Shewfelt

  Yoga, Tools, Body

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• If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

  Jane Fonda

  Pregnancy, Keys, Two

  "Time For New Ideas In Prevention of Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2009.

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• When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio.

  Laurie Glimcher

  Cancer, Thinking, Vaccines

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadnt taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

  David Blunkett

  Taken, Thinking, Would Be

  "Interview with British Home Secretary David Blunkett". "CNN Live on Location" with Judy Wiidruff, www.cnn.com. April 3, 2003.

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• Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Educational, Media, Osteoporosis

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• Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.

  James Fox

  Meaningful, New York, Believe

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• Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have been proven to not only fail to reduce crime but actually increase crime, waste taxpayers' money and discriminate against minorities.

  Bobby Scott

  Talking, Minorities, Waste

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• It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Pregnancy, People

  "Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Have Not Reduced Teen Pregnancy" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2009.

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• Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Organization, Risk, Development

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