We Prefer Quotes

48 quotes by 42 authors

• We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever. — Thomas Jefferson
• We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
• If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
• I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate… — Maurice Sendak
• True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art… — Lars von Trier
• The path to relative economic, social and ecological sustainability is guaranteed to be littered with failures of every nature and scale. If we recognize them… — John Elkington
• Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed. — Adoniram Judson
• For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. — Robert Breault
• We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery. — Ahmed Sekou Toure
• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility — Thomas Szasz
• Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are… — Wayne Muller
• Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than… — Stephen A. Diamond
• We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. — Kwame Nkrumah
• This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell. — Fidel Castro
• We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable,… — Helmut Jahn
• Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we… — David Gill
• We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty. — Peter Pace
• I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and… — Kenny Smith
• Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored. — Joan Didion

Who Wrote These We Prefer Quotes

42 authors contributed a total of 48 We Prefer Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 We Prefer Quotes by Thomas Szasz
• 2 We Prefer Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
• 2 We Prefer Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Ahmed Sekou Toure
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Sumesh Nair
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Wayne Muller
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Stephen A. Diamond
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Kwame Nkrumah
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Fidel Castro
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Helmut Jahn
• 1 We Prefer Quote by David Gill
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Peter Pace
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Kenny Smith
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Joan Didion
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Clifton Fadiman
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Charlie Munger
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Charles Horton Cooley
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Isaac D'Israeli
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Frederick Lenz
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Gerald Stanley Lee
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton
• 1 We Prefer Quote by John F. Kennedy
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Cecelia Ahern
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Douglas Kennedy
• 1 We Prefer Quote by Thomas Jefferson