Preference Quotes

322 quotes by 288 authors

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. — Seneca the Elder
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all. — Moliere
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… — Friedrich August von Hayek
What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their… — Walter E. Williams
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute… — Steven Weinberg
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends,… — Cyril Connolly
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — Steven Weinberg
My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference. — Lucinda Roy
I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. — Themistocles
Good men prefer to be accountable. — Michael Edwardes
People should always have something which they prefer to life. — Johann Gottfried Seume
The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as… — John Tooby
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future… — Kevin Rudd
With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health,… — Thomas Jefferson
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and… — Anatole France
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that… — Pete Gill
If animals are no longer quite outside the moral sphere, they are still in a special section near the outer rim. Their interests are allowed… — Peter Singer

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