Relative Risk Aversion

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

    Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
    Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

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