Best Preventing Quotes

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.

I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God’s power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

…I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody’s getting a tax cut here. We’re not cutting taxes. We’re preventing tax increases from occurring.

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

There is no ‘grand conspiracy’ preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it’s too late: it has already become another Africa.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don’t think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

It’s usually a spiritual thing that’s preventing somebody from having happiness.

Every being is in search of truth, but small fears go on preventing you.

Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

There are too many things around us, preventing us from thinking well! To think well, sometimes we need a heavy fog!

What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.

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.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

The purpose is to help, to prevent, to correct, to improve, rather than to punish. Criticism is not meant to punish, but rather to correct something that is preventing better results. The only goal is improvement.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.

Is neither a cure for AIDS nor a way of preventing infection with HIV.

A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to grant the divorce on grounds of impotence, denial of conjugal rights, or unreasonable restriction of her freedom-for example, preventing her from attending funerals or wedding parties.

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 no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature – the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books – we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn’t you think that was already illegal?