Prevail Quotes

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Having committed ourselves to Iraq, we must prevail, and to prevail, we must fund all of the requirements for our military. We must do it adequately and promptly, and the administration is doing neither.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.