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Better treatment and policing are essential to winning...

Better treatment and policing are essential to winning the battle against drugs, but prevention is the foundation.

Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre about drugs, essential

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent...

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

Quote by Joe Baca about nothing

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

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

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about power

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Quote by Ray Bradbury about future

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he...

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about force, police, law, power, man

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.

Quote by Laurent Fabius about things, time

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring...

Quote by Laurent Fabius about technology, nation, time

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can...

Quote by William Falconer about water

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Quote by William Falconer

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

Quote by William Godwin about duty, liberty, life, rightness, man

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put...

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Quote by Blaise Pascal

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about humanity, question, pain, absurd, war, death

A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.

Quote by James Payn about example, poverty, human imperfections

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Quote by Albert Einstein about intelligence, problems

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of...

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, language, help, time

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, ...

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

Quote by Elie Wiesel about people, destruction, man

Before being old I want to be young, for preventing the...

Before being old I want to be young, for preventing the arrival of the old man.

Quote by Marius Torok about time, old, olderness, being, man

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