Famous quotes containing the words prefer and/or green:
“... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for ones own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
—Ruth Benedict (18871948)
“The first green night of their dreaming, asleep beneath the Tree,/God said, Let meanings move, and there was poetry.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (19131980)
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