Prevented Quotes

218 quotes by 197 authors

There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions. — Michael Bloomberg
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the… — Omar N. Bradley
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying… — Bertolt Brecht
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to… — Italo Calvino
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long… — Leo Tolstoy
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O'Connor
It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of… — Frederick The Great
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of… — Frederick The Great
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't… — Mario Savio
Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment… — Adam Schiff
If we played Boston four-on-four, without Russell, we probably would have won every series. That guy killed us. He's the one who prevented us from… — Rod Hundley
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. — Thomas Sowell
If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people. — Scilla Elworthy
A man, even if seriously sick or prevented in the exercise of its higher functions, is and will be always a man ... [he] will… — Pope John Paul II
Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and… — Laozi
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. — William Bligh
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented… — Henry Fielding
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner

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