General Population Prefer

Famous quotes containing the words general, population and/or prefer:

“Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)