What is most desirable is to get rid of undesirable matters.

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what…

— Abraham Maslow

PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort…

— William Stanley Jevons

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and…

— John Dewey

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should…

— Catharine Beecher

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…

— T. S. Eliot

We were all illegal at one point and we were all unwanted at one point. Somebody in our family, if not us, was undesirable,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there…

— Yoshida Kenko

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable…

— Patricia Ryan

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of…

— David Willetts

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of…

— Paul Krugman

“Shifting attention away from an undesirable issue is an ideal practice.”

— Steven Redhead

well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home…

— Dave Pelzer

“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable.…

— Agnostic Zetetic

Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding…

— Jonathan Haidt

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot…

— Chogyam Trungpa