Prevent Quotes

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.

Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences.

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

My business is to prevent the future.

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.

The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.