Prevent Quotes

1159 Prevent quotes by 860 unique authors

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless… — Ingrid Newkirk
Learning is to discover that something is possible. We are using most of our energies for self-destructiv e games, self-preventing games. We prevent ourselves from… — Frederick Salomon Perls
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get… — Abraham Lincoln
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine
Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one. — Blaise Pascal
Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for… — Thomas Sowell
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's… — Jeremy Rifkin
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police. — Thomas Merton
Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot… — John Churton Collins
A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting. — Paul Theroux
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. — Richard Neal
Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about… — Dave Obey
I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. — Barbara Lee
The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first… — Monica Potter
In America, after 9/11, and after the death of bin Laden, and after two wars, one of them fought, a lot of people think, on… — Gideon Raff
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on… — Jim Ramstad
Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from… — Brent Scowcroft
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural… — Larry Sabato
Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home. — Greg Walden
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition… — John Yoo
Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and… — John Yoo
Not only do these abominable weapons lie buried in silence and in their millions waiting to kill or maim innocent women and children; but the… — Kofi Annan

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