28 Prevention Quotes

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

It is entirely clear that there is only one way in which great wars can be permanently prevented, and that is the establishment of an international government with a monopoly of serious armed force.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. We do need to intervene, to improve political and economic conditions inside countries that have bad governments, where people are suffering. One way of doing this, without violating sovereignty, is through constructive actions - reinforcements and incentives for countries that are moving in the right direction, toward an open society, a market economy, et cetera. That is what I'm advocating. I'm advocating preventive action of a constructive nature. And I would use military force only as the very last resort, when nothing else works.

Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'

We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?

The third part of our plan to strengthen border enforcement is to stop people from crossing the border illegally in the first place. (5 December 2005)

The final chapter of The Great Illusion presents a convincing plea for a change in foreign policy from that of a war policy to one of international cooperation and peace. If this is not made, war, he says, will be inevitable. The fact that we are living in a world of international interdependence makes it imperative that we organize the international community of nations accordingly, basing the community on the common interests which bind nations together, relinquishing the principle of isolated national defence, providing collective security through common effort by erecting an international authority which can replace the prevailing international anarchy.

Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.

The illness with which he'd been smitten should have been analysed when caught, something like spleen, that scourge of Britain, or Russia's chondria, for short.

Tell me young nigga never learned a thang/Dead at thirteen cause he yearned to bang/Snipped a lot of flowers, but how can I cry/Tried to warn the little nigga either stop or die

It is not enough to tackle the mechanics of terror organizations. We must also tackle the situations that create terrorists. We desperately need to address the frustration, the loss and the despair that drive some to these actions.

Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.

Thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.