Famous quotes containing the words absolute, risk and/or aversion:
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)