Preventing Quotes

• Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

  

  Raul Castro
  • War
  • Winning
  • Preventing

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

  

  Max Lerner
  • Way
  • Preparing
  • Dubious

• Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Vices
  • Penalties
  • Nine

• No life, my honest scholar, no life so happyand so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.

  

  William Walton
  • Honest
  • Streams
  • Scholar

• There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Force
  • Possibility
  • Weapons

• Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Preventing

• The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Attention
  • Leader
  • National

• And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

  

  Robert Walpole
  • Expenses
  • Abolition
  • Burdened

• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  

  Emil Fackenheim
  • Evil
  • Believed
  • Avert

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

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Spiritual
  • Happiness
  • Preventing

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

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Believe
  • Form
  • Cruelty

• Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

  

  Alphonse Daudet
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening... I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • Belief
  • Bases
  • Humanitarian

• Progress among the youngest children is especially important because we know that preventing obesity at an early age helps young people maintain a healthy weight into adulthood.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Important
  • Progress
  • Adulthood

• This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • Successful
  • United States
  • Program