Relative Risk Aversion

Famous quotes containing the words relative, risk and/or aversion:

“It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her “job” is that the children’s growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother’s indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)

“My aversion from music rests on political grounds.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)