Prevent Quotes

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The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love. — Thomas Jefferson
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much… — Ray Bradbury
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock. — Margaret Sanger
The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent… — Margaret Sanger
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to… — V.S. Naipaul
The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God's children implies, in fact, a broadening process of incarnation.… — Carl Jung
This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… — Hannah Arendt
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one… — Thucydides
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a… — John Grisham
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and… — Jim Rohn
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the… — Larry Niven
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life — Protagoras
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe… — F. Paul Wilson
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people . — Jefferson Davis
Secession belongs to a different class of remedies. It is to be justified upon the basis that the States are Sovereign. There was a time… — Jefferson Davis
I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring. — Helen Keller
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades

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