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Prevent Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
- Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children…
- My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him…
- When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do,…
- All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting…
More Prevent Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real… — Martha Beck
- Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the… — Andrew Bernstein
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black
- One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- My business is to prevent the future. — Ray Bradbury
- I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. — Ray Bradbury
- Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the… — Omar N. Bradley
- President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
- In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American… — John O. Brennan