Prevention Quotes - Page 7

• Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Essence, Worst Enemy

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.

  Donald Berwick

  People, Mind, Dollars

  Donald M. Berwick (2013). “Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It”, p.213, John Wiley & Sons

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• As a player, I was fortunate to work with coaching and medical staffs that underscored the importance of utilizing injury prevention exercises, which contributed to my healthy and long playing career.

  Cobi Jones

  Exercise, Player, Careers

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• It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.

  Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish

  Children, Animal, Men

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• Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

  Raymond Kendall

  Country, War, Years

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• The work on [polio] prevention was long delayed by... misleading experimental models of the disease in monkeys

  Albert Sabin

  Animal, Long, Disease

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• The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

  Herbert Hoover

  Practice, People, Conservative

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The P.A.S.T. preventative screening and treatment programs are a must for all players. We can extend our lives and live a healthy and pain free life. The programs are very comprehensive. We have lost several players at a young age, maybe the loss of some of our players could have been prevented with the prevention, knowledge, and treatment that P.A.S.T. provides.

  James Worthy

  Pain, Loss, Player

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• Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

  Bernard Levin

  Cancer, Effort, Responsible

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• National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

  Lois Capps

  Osteoporosis, May, Disease

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• The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

  Richard Neal

  Effort, Defense, Lines

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• We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

  Rodney Erickson

  Children, Leader, Abuse

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• Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

  Dale E. Turner

  Peace, Real, War

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• We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

  Olympia Snowe

  Progress, Fields, Needs

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• China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.

  Wen Jiabao

  Russia, Organization, Effort

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• If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Might, Radical Change

  Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

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• The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Interesting

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.335, Random House

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Bullying, Facts, Sometimes

  "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

  Havelock Ellis

  Sex, Race, Adoption

  Havelock Ellis (1910). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sex in relation to society”

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• Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Past

  "Noam Sayin’?". Interview with T.A. Sedlak, chomsky.info. July 29, 2011.

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• Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mean, Exercise, Rights

  "First State of the Union Address" by Calvin Coolidge, 1923.

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• When health workers are infected at work, this puts other healthcare workers at risk, but also can be a risk to all other patients, understanding where the breach in these measures is occurring and taking the steps needed to fully implement infection prevention and control measures can put an end to these ... infections.

  Keiji Fukuda

  Health, Understanding, Risk

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