Prevent

Famous quotes containing the word prevent:

“Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

“A true voluptuary will never abandon his mind to the grossness of reality. It is by exalting the earthly, the material, the physique of our pleasures, by veiling these ideas, by forgetting them altogether, or, at least, never naming them hardly to one’s self, that we alone can prevent them from disgusting.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)