avoid Quotes

“This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.”

“Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

“Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.”

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

“Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.”

“The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.”

“Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.”

“Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.”

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.”