Avert Quotes

53 quotes by 52 authors

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
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. — Camille Paglia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. — David Chalmers
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
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. — Hafez
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
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
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
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
We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls. — Dennis Kucinich
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? — Jeremy Rifkin
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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