Prophylactic Quotes

#1. Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Everything is worse ... if you think something is looking at you.

Shirley Jackson

#3. The capitalist can only make a whole people go to war ... by capturing the popular will. The only prophylactic against that situation is to make the public aware of the way in which it is being misled.

Norman Angell

#4. The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

George Ellwanger

#5. anti-fascist protective measure'. I have always been fond of this term which has something of the prophylactic about it, protecting easterners from the western disease of shallow materialism. It obeys all the logic of locking up free people to keep them safe from criminals.

Anna Funder

#6. Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock.

Alvin Toffler

#7. The best prophylactic for god viruses, especially fundamentalist variants, is science education. The more science is taught or discussed, the fewer tools a god virus has to infect populations.

Darrel W. Ray

#8. Loneliness grows around them, like mould or fur, a prophylactic that inhibits contact, no matter how badly contact is desired.

Olivia Laing

#9. A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#10. What better use for words than to inspire:
It's not by chance desire rhymes with fire.

Joseph Roccasalvo

#11. The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.

David Novak

#12. Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Margaret Landon

#13. She has learned that she can control her emotions by thinking of her chest cavity as an enormous box with a chain lock. She opens the box and stuffs in any stray unmanageable feelings, any wayward sadness or regret, and clamps it shut.

Christina Baker Kline

#14. The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Walter Lippmann

#15. Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.

Chelsea Clinton

#16. Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the
political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

Henry Calvert Simons

#17. If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

Richard Dawkins

#18. Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

James Hillman

#19. Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.

Jessi Kirby