Top 97 Preventive Quotes & Sayings

As austerity has drained the blood from public services, preventive services have been the first to suffer.

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.

Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

Making sure that people have access to preventive medicine for the first time ever as a nation? That's a big deal.

Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people.

There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.

What keeps me up at night is worrying about the moms who depend on ACA for all of the preventive care and not to mention prenatal care, the wellness visits, and the cost of delivery.

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; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Because I withered under the glare of an actual invitation, I was a firm believer in preventive prevarication--in other words, lying early in order to free myself later on.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.

We've been paying for 100 percent of preventive care. But if you're not getting annual physicals, then you're not going to gain a financial incentive, so effectively your insurance premium with us will go up.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same.

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

I practiced medicine up 'til now. I practice psychiatry. I shifted from different specialties. I started as a village doctor - community doctor, public health preventive medicine.

Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Life's tough on the body and I'm a big fan of preventive maintenance.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.

Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

We promised new benefits to seniors like preventive screening and diabetes testing. We kept that promise.

As spokesman for Lipitor, I have been an advocate of preventive medicine in addition to my work with the Jarvik 2000 Heart, which has rescued people from death and sustained a patient with a normal, mobile lifestyle for seven and a half years - the longest in the world.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

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 remedy.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

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 serum using large animals.

Take [preventive] action before things happen. Establish order before disorder has begun.

Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure.

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

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 earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

The reduction in a number of pregnancies is - compensates for the cost of contraception. ... Providing contraception as a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children reduces health care.

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.

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 serum using large animals

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Diplomatic eminences often natter on about preventive action, making the obvious point that it's better to cure festering ills before they metastasize into something much worse.

There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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 war.

As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

Vaccination and other essential preventive services must be delivered close within communities.

There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.

Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

Thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventive care services, including contraception, will be covered by private insurance plans without co-pays or deductibles.