Preventing Quotes

214 quotes by 196 authors

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.… — Albert Camus
War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda. — Barack Obama
It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in… — George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot… — Maxime Weygand
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a… — Maimonides
The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on… — Adolf Hitler
One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was… — Enrico Fermi
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from… — Robert Fulton
The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance… — Richard Owen
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of… — Peter Singer
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it. — Max Lerner
The answer lies in preventing failures not in looking for better ways to fix the children who are failing. — William Glasser
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one. — Ralph Raico
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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