Preferable Quotes

121 quotes by 108 authors

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. — Lawana Blackwell
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water. — William Whipple
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing… — Ian Mcewan
Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And… — P.J. O'Rourke
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results… — Benjamin Tucker
It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of… — Stacy Schiff
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority. — Benjamin Tucker
I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living. — Vasco da Gama
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is… — Charles Inglis
In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people… — Samuel Williams
It's just like a big chunk of me has been ripped out and I'm not quite whole. I don't think I'm over dramatizing it, and… — Jeffrey Dahmer
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family,… — Chanakya
A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them. — Boris Beizer
I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary… — Gottfried Leibniz
When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the… — Charles Horton Cooley
At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to… — Dana Stabenow
Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion… — Nathaniel Branden
Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion,… — Aristotle
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material… — E F Schumacher
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts,… — Mahatma Gandhi

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