Prevented Quotes
218 quotes by 197 authors
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There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
— Michael Bloomberg
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
— Flannery O'Connor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.
— Scilla Elworthy
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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
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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
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All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
— William Bligh
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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
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Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.
— Thomas Eisner
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