Prevent Quotes

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. — Hannah Arendt
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;â€¦ to alienate humans from their own… — Paulo Freire
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping,… — Robert Frost
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a… — Maurice Blanchot
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring… — David Gemmell
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. — Oscar Wilde
How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no… — Erich Maria Remarque
Then he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee… — Jorge Luis Borges
In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to… — Jeff Lindsay
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed… — Douglas Adams
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion… — Franz Wright
What people regard as vanityâ€”leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgottenâ€”I regard as the… — Paulo Coelho
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power which gave it birth â€“ yourself. (Genevieve Behrend) — Rhonda Byrne
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them.… — Terry Pratchett
If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do… — Peter Singer
And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing… — Herman Melville

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