Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Bertrand Russell

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Jonathan Swift

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

Lord Byron

Of religion I know nothing -- at least, in its favor.

Eric Schlosser

Fast food is inexpensive, convenient, and it tastes good. I'm all in favor of that. My problem is how heavily processed it is - how full of salt, fat, and sugar it is.

Essentially, he has served about 85 percent of his sentence, which was all he was supposed to serve. He got no special favors or anything like that.

Carlos Delgado

At the beginning, that was their approach, ... It doesn't matter if you're Latin, American or Italian, if we're going to talk business, talk business. I'm not doing you any favors, you're not doing me any favors because we're speaking in Spanish. I'm a man first.

This is a game that favors mistakes. The winner will make the fewest mistakes.

Gerhard Schroder

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

Jillian Michaels

Showing you pity doesn't do you any favors.

James Bovard

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

George Sand

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

Gary Ackerman

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

Christina Aguilera

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

Frank Robinson

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

George Hickenlooper

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Jean de la Bruyere

The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists. [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

Fareed Zakaria

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

Howard Hawks

Fortune favors the prepared.

Goodness gets a seat. - Igala, Nigeria. (Pachocinski, p. 224; explanation: good people will be shown favors and will live longer).

Buzz Aldrin

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

Milton Friedman

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Hillary Clinton

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

Eugene Jarecki

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

In a strange way, the issue is not as salient, as important or resonates on Main Street as much as politicians or legislators think it does. The reason is simple ? Main Street already thinks politicians are taking favors from lobbyists.

They were so high in the business, I saw a lot of people trying to hang onto them, to get favors from them, and it turned me off. So I just played wherever I could around town.

It shouldn't be a place where political favors are granted.

It's hard to get anything passed that favors defense.

Pindar

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

Pope Francis

Yes, hypothetically, western Catholicism could revise the theme of celibacy. ... But for the moment, I am in favor of maintaining celibacy, with the pros and the cons it has, because we have ten centuries of more good experiences than bad ones.

Joel Salatin

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.