Avert Quotes
53 quotes by 52 authors
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come, as to how…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean:…
— Paul Krugman
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a…
— Al Gore
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with…
— Tony Blair
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could…
— Elizabeth Moon
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because…
— Robert Olen Butler
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People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
— David Chalmers
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The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had…
— Kumi Naidoo
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
— Hafez
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In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil…
— Emil Fackenheim
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The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid…
— Richard L. Evans
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Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
— Winston Churchill
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There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I…
— Andrew Jackson
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We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.
— Dennis Kucinich
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Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to…
— Plato
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