Quotes & Sayings About Prevention And Cure

Medicine and society have entered into a folie a deaux regarding medicine's importance in gigantic population ills. We believe that genetics and pills and enzymes bring us health. We wait for the dementia cure (the obesity cure, the diabetes cure) rather than changing our society to decrease incidence and severity. We slash social welfare programs and access to GPs and ignore the downstream effect this will have on future generations.
To reduce non-communicable disease, the actions we need to take are societal: make it easier for people to move and eat well, strengthen education, promote community participation and meaningful work. Our collective delusion is that we can have all the benefits such a society would bring without the structural supports necessary to bring it into being, that we can attain health by inventing and buying drugs.
It is hard to know which is the more utopian vision: magic pills or a society serious about prevention. — Karen Hitchcock

We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults. — Lauren DeStefano

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. — Osama Bin Laden

Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few. — Barry Loudermilk

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. — Benjamin Franklin

A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. — John Robert Colombo

Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over the good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn't easily moved. This human inability to foresee
or to watch out for
long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer. (109) — Ronald Wright

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value. — Robert A. Heinlein

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

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur. — Michael J. Fox

How can we be so good for each other in so many ways, and so bad in just as many others? — R.K. Lilley

But the last few years had taught me that one of my grandmother's favorite sayings was true. An ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. — Charlaine Harris

We are the custodians of our bodies. We must take action to employ healthy lifestyle habits to prevent, reduce, and/or manage disease and illness. — Bridgette L. Collins

Malaria prevention and eradication should be inspired by General George Patton's advice: "A good plan executed violently today is better than a perfect plan in a week." In this war of attrition, millions of people will be lost while waiting on researchers to finally emerge triumphant from their labs with the perfect malaria cure; yet meanwhile, there are plenty of time-proven, practical actions that individuals, families and communities can do today with what is already in hand that can decisively defeat malaria transmission if applied with vigor and disciplined consistency. — T.K. Naliaka

A gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure."
-Ganner Rhysode — Michael A. Stackpole

An ounce of cancer prevention is worth a ton of cancer cure. — Robert A. Wascher

There are two reasons for drinking wine ... when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it ... prevention is better than cure. — Thomas Love Peacock

The first pale blossom of the unripened year. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Prevention is better than cure. — Desiderius Erasmus

To awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to begin to see oneself and one's group the way the outside world saw one; and it was to know a kind of rage. India was now full of this rage. There had been a general awakening. But everyone awakened first to his own group or community; every group thought itself unique in its awakening; and every group sought to separate its rage from the rage of other groups. — V.S. Naipaul

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases. — Rudolf Leuckart

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films. — Bruce Bennett

I can only encourage everyone to take a close look at their practices. Prevention is always better than cure. — Neelie Kroes

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. — David Agus