Prevents Quotes

I'm not sure why anybody makes a physical CD anymore when the costs are so much lower to just throw it up on iTunes. And it doesn't seem that making a hard copy of something prevents pirating any less. I mean I'm amazed that they still do that.

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves.

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.