Prevention Quotes

“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.”
― Tiffany Madison

“When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced by an external substance, but by changes within the person. It is like learning to read, write or ride a bicycle. Once you have learned, the skills stays with you. People no not become illiterate after they graduate from school, and if they get rusty at riding a bicycle, the skill can be acquired with relatively little practice. Furthermore, part of what a person might learn in therapy is to expect downturns in mood and to interpret them as a normal part of their life, rather than as an indication of an underlying disorder. This understanding, along with the skills that the person has learned for coping with negative moods and situations, can help to prevent a depressive relapse.”
― Irving Kirsch, The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth

“Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tube by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.”
― Denis Parsons Burkitt

“Far more potently than any miracle medicine, relatively uncelebrated shifts in civic arrangements--better nutrition, housing, and sanitation, improved sewage systems and ventilation--had driven TB mortality down in Europe and America. Polio and smallpox had also dwindles as a result of vaccinations. Cains wrote, "The death rates from malaria, cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, scurvy, pellagra, and other scourges of the past have dwindled in the US because humankind has learned how to prevent these diseases.... To put most of the effort into treatment is to deny all precedent.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“An accident is often caused by an attempt to prevent one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is usually impossible to know when you have prevented an accident.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There is no medicine you can take that will replace what you can do for your own health.”
― Aarti Patel, The Art of Health: Simple and Powerful Keys for Creating Health in your Life

“A good doctor cures the disease, but a great doctor cures the cause.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a COVID-19 disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?”
― Louise F. Fitzgerald

“...some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“That highest value which anticipates and prevents rather than avenges crime.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

“The current system is broken. We need to move towards an era of disease prevention and personalized medicine.”
― Emmanuel Fombu, The Future of Healthcare: Humans and Machines Partnering for Better Outcomes

“One cannot prevent knowledge, and information just with the tools.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The headway with one cure and prevention is, cure curtails”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Lung ventilators are the COVID-19 treatment and isolation combined with taking supplements prior to infection is the prevention.”
― Steven Magee

“Prevention really is the most powerful medicine, but we as a species consistenly lack the political or psychological will to act preventively in our own best interests.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“We enjoy rest and relaxation, but our bodies are still those of endurance athletes evolved to walk many miles a day and often run, as well as dig, climb and carry. We love many comforts, but we are not well adapted to spend our days indoors in chairs, wearing supportive shoes, staring at books or screens for hours on end.”
― Daniel E. Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease

“One of Lee's students once asked him, "Master, you constantly speak to us of peace, yet every day you train us to fight. How do you reconcile these conflicting ideas?" And Bruce Lee responded, "It's better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war”
― Will Smith, Will

“Everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention. We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race (this may be curable to some extent); we are a very unfair one.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“The people who make the world sick prevent those who heal it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“For everyone who acts, there is someone who counteracts.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Maybe he’d talk privately to Blaine later on, see what he could do to keep from being influenced by anything malevolent. Sage and salt in his underwear, maybe, although that would chafe. A little chafing was probably worth not having a spirit using him, though.”
― Sean Michael, The Librarian's Ghost

“You can’t negotiate with a wildfire. You can only ask yourself what kind of world allowed it to burn this way—and what you’re willing to do to stop the next one.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Burnout doesn’t happen all at once—it builds over time, often so gradually that you don’t even realize how much it’s affecting you.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing from Emotional Burnout: A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Your Energy, Focus, and Passion

“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical tool belt and start building. It's time to turn those values into the strong, flexible protective walls of your Burnout Prevention Blueprint, otherwise known as: boundaries.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor

“When there's smoke, it's possible there's a fire. Don't wait for the fire alarm to go off.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“Time is of essence because sometimes damage control can turn into a never ending nightmare.”
― Sasha Laghonh