Prevent Quotes
1159 quotes by 902 authors
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What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments…
— Elbridge Gerry
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All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
— Samuel Johnson
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You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one…
— Bertrand Russell
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity…
— Ellen Key
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To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely…
— Ralph Bunche
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Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can…
— Elie Wiesel
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People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
— Baron d'Holbach
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Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and…
— Robert Owen
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You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
— Noam Chomsky
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It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.
— Tony DiCicco
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what…
— Francis Quarles
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The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.
— La Meri
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
— Anne O'Hare McCormick
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Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
— Dith Pran
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The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy and maybe we…
— Al Gore
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of…
— Candace Bushnell
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Discipline of others isn't punishment. You discipline to help, to improve, to correct, to prevent, not to punish, humiliate, or retaliate.
— John Wooden
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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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