Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us. Votes: 3
Henri NouwenNothing is going to improve my hearing. I've only got to prevent it from getting worse. Votes: 3
Stephanie BeachamToday the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. Votes: 3
Anne O'Hare McCormickThe function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. Votes: 3
Frank HerbertLet the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Votes: 3
Francis QuarlesNobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it Votes: 3
Elizabeth KeckleyLet the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliIt is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. Votes: 1
William Lyon Mackenzie KingIt is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques RousseauThose magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it. Votes: 0
Cato the YoungerEverytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself. Votes: 0
Jean PiagetWe can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or. Votes: 0
Rusty SchweickartIt is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardIt is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil. Votes: 0
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of SwintonIt is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes. Votes: 0
George Washingtonit is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. Votes: 0
Mary Martha SherwoodAnytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it. Votes: 0
Rusty SchweickartEvidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowThe only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens. Votes: 0
Boyle RocheWhen men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. Votes: 0
Alan PatonIf you can prevent one fight among your children, let it be the fight for your attention. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerThe fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantIt is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it. Votes: 0
James Freeman ClarkeYou want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions. Votes: 0
Steve ScaliseIt doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world. Votes: 0
Gregory David RobertsLove that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong. Votes: 0
Shailer MathewsIt takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream. Votes: 0
Tony DiCiccoWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. Votes: 0
Blaise PascalThe greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent. Votes: 0
J. William FulbrightWe hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. Votes: 0
Jerome Cavanagh