#prevent

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

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#end #europe #grinds #halt #in the end

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#lacks #never #power #prevent #should

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#good #hanging #many #marriage #prevents

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

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

— Samuel Butler

#being #doing #i #injustice #justice

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#becoming #best #intended #men #prevent

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#badly #cannot #dishonest #doing #done

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#environmental #incurable #only #pollution #prevented

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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