Prevent Quotes

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The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm. — Unknown Author
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a… — H.G. Wells
There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is… — Thomas Love Peacock
We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should… — Vladimir Putin
There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon… — Mark Twain
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ...… — Auberon Waugh
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,… — Ramsey Clark
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. — George Bernard Shaw
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation… — Albert Einstein
We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still the memory of the victims… — Lidia Yusupova
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts… — Mary Robinson
The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin… — Abraham Lincoln
The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least… — Barack Obama
We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. — Dora Russell
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the… — Frederick William Robertson
I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we… — Thomas Jefferson
In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. — Harry S. Truman
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that… — Eric Hoffer
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired. — Dale Carnegie
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — James Madison
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We… — Ronald Reagan

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