Avoid Quotes

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

Caspar David Friedrich
- Society
- Hate
- Misanthrope
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.

Lao Tzu
- Weapons
- Tools
- Avoid

Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Lao Tzu
- See
- Illness
- Avoid
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

Amber Hollibaugh
- Reality
- Movement
- Avoid
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

Cat Cora
- Away
- Cleaning
- Bacteria
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.

Eli Attie
- Hope
- Grief
- Avoid
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
- Error
- Avoid
- Own up
Members of the non-ruling class who want to rise in their profession through sheer competence try at once to avoid the ruling class’s rituals while guarding against infringing its prejudices. Averse to wheedling, they tend to think that exams should play a major role in getting or advance in jobs, that records of performance—including academic ones—should be matters of public record [common in other countries like France and India], and that professional disputes should be settled by open argument.

Angelo Codevilla
- Profession
- Rise
- Rituals