(749 quotes found)
“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”
Charles Caleb Colton
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Anna (Nicole Smith) would make a good fame-prevention spokesperson in high schools, should such a program ever come into existence”
Carina Chocano
“Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him from having 1. the sense of romantic solitude (if he is worth anything he will develop a proper and useful solitude) which identification with the hero gives. 2. cant ideas of right and wrong, absurd systems of honor and morality which never will he be able completely to get rid of, 3. the attainment of ''ideals',' of a priori desires, of a priori emotions. He should amuse himself with fact only: he will then not learn that if the weak younger son do or do not the magical honorable thing he will win the princess with hair like flax.”
Lionel Trilling
“Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.”
John Ruskin
“You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.”
Ashley Judd
“Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The severity of the laws prevents their execution.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”
Albert Einstein
“Be an explorer...read, surf the internet, visit customers, enjoy arts, watch children play...do anything to prevent yourself from becoming a prisoner of your knowledge, experience, and current view of the world.”
Charles Thompson
