#prevent

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

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

— Joseph Butler

#compassion #final #misery #prevent #relieve

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

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#being #cannot #errors #france #french

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#attainment #being #coercion #encouragement #forfeiture

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country. ↗

— Ang Lee

#bad #bad guys #china #communist #country

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#awareness #clearly #combat #country #crisis