Risk Aversion Equal

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

    It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

    My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
    Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)

    Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of men ... ours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)