Famous quotes containing the words risk, aversion and/or equal:
“Kemmerick: Hes dead. Hes dead.
Katczinsky: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?
Kemmerick: But its Behm. My friend.
Katczinsky: Its a corpse, no matter who it is.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)
“When in a serious mood, it seems to me that those people are illogical who feel an aversion toward death. As far as I can see, life consists exclusively of horrors, unpleasantnesses and banalities, now merging, now alternating.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“The only coöperation which is commonly possible is exceedingly partial and superficial; and what little true coöperation there is, is as if it were not, being a harmony inaudible to men. If a man has faith, he will coöperate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)