Preventing Quotes

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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to the one purpose… — Alexander Hamilton
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on… — Lauren Slater
It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. — Mark Twain
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. — Ibn Taymiyyah
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of… — Alexander Hamilton
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out… — Margaret Sanger
There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of… — John F. Kennedy
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are… — Joseph Brodsky
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note… — Nicholas D. Kristof
He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing… — Andrew Card
In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people… — P.D. James
The empowerment of girls and women is an essential tool to preventing the HIV/AIDS emergency from exploding any further — Ashley Judd
A baby who cannot relax can be helped to do so by a variety of constant rhythmical stimuli. it will work if the trouble is… — Penelope Leach
Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from… — Mark Steyn
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes… — Tom Robbins
God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all… — Jacobus Arminius
The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from… — Frederic Bastiat
I think, sometimes, that I'm going nuts, and that perhaps there is something good about blocking clean water for those who have none, making sure… — Paul Farmer

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