Top 100 In Favor Quotes
#1. I am all in favor of the skeptical mind. Do not believe anything unless you have experienced it. Do not believe anything - go on questioning, however long it takes.
Rajneesh
#2. The habit of ignoring our present moments in favor of others yet to come leads directly to a pervasive lack of awareness of the web of life in which we are embedded.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#3. I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#4. I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion.
Leland Stanford
#5. If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Tommy Franks
#7. This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.
James F. Twyman
#8. The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#9. The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach
James E. Grunig
#10. There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
Kathleen Sebelius
#11. The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.
Lou Holtz
#12. We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.
George Washington
#13. The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.
Martin Filler
#14. I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.
Gore Vidal
#15. I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
Edward Abbey
#16. A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
James Longstreet
#17. With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers
Rob Portman
#18. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.
Bill O'Reilly
#19. The one by L. Ron Hubbard ... I'm not in favor of his religion by any means, but he wrote a book called Battlefield Earth that was a very fun science fiction book.
Mitt Romney
#20. If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.
Michael King
#21. I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don't believe in climate change - they think oil will last forever.
Elon Musk
#22. I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.
Simon Schama
#23. Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth
Saint Basil
#24. Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
Nathan Myhrvold
#25. A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development.
Milton Friedman
#26. There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.
William Howard Taft
#27. While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln
#28. In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor ... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being.
William Rehnquist
#29. 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.
Pope Francis
#30. Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
William Shakespeare
#31. In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.
Edward Kennedy
#32. I think it's appropriate for the international community in situations like this to intervene in Kosovo. I am in favor of an intervention. On some level, you have to say that at least somebody is doing something.
Mike Farrell
#33. I chose silent resentment in favor of expressing my feelings, and that was a mistake.
Ellen Hopkins
#34. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge
#35. She was trapped with a telepathic cat that wanted to go to the opera, in an elevator that had passed dungeon in favor of a lower floor - hell.
Nina Bangs
#37. I would like to ask each of you: Would you be in favor of some kind of education on birth control and if so, how would you use that as a possible solution to the ever present question of abortion.
Robert Duvall
#38. But with the hours I sometimes kept at the coffeehouse I had to have learned to take naps during the day or die, and I had learned to take naps. Up until five months ago "something or other or die" had always seemed like a plain choice in favor of the something or other.
Robin McKinley
#39. The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.
Greg Van Eekhout
#40. I am in favor of admitting any territory into the Union of States as soon as it has fulfilled the requirements of the Constitution and shall petition for admission.
Ambrose Burnside
#41. I don't think it's that controversial. I'm really in favor of legalizing marijuana. I thought people would be more offended by [this series] than they are. I'm surprised they weren't.
Mary-Louise Parker
#42. I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
Mitt Romney
#43. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#44. Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.
Gerhard Schroder
#45. We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
James Sinegal
#46. I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
Abraham Lincoln
#47. If I were not so highly ranked and mature for two hundred, I would test the genetics and make a point out of telling the male that he had been rejected in favor of my sperm."
"You're having a fantasy about that right now, aren't you?" Liam asked.
"Yes
Lyn Gala
#48. There is much in nature against us. But we forget:
Take nature altogether since time began,
Including human nature, in peace and war,
And it must be a little more in favor of man ...
Robert Frost
#49. (We're in favor of independence as long as it's in other people's empires, not in our own.)
Noam Chomsky
#50. The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.
Carlos Wallace
#51. When time is not in your favor, be in favor of time
Kandarp Gandhi
#52. A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in favor of Christianity.
Ellen G. White
#53. I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
William Howard Taft
#54. If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.
Ted Chiang
#55. I live in New Hampshire. We're in favor of global warming. Eleven hundred more feet of sea-level rises? I've got beachfront property. You tell us up there, 'By the end of the century, New York City could be underwater,' and we say, 'Your point is?'
P. J. O'Rourke
#56. "Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.
Janet Morris
#57. [T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear reasons for construing discourse as ambiguous, elliptical, or involving special idioms, we should not so construe it.
Tyler Burge
#58. Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont
Ayn Rand
#59. In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
Theodore Roethke
#60. Each time we allow our interest to take a back sit in favor of others, which is a form of death.
Sunday Adelaja
#61. The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.
Michael Badnarik
#62. These illegal aliens are criminals and we need to treat them as such. I'm not in favor of giving amnesty to anybody who has broken the law. I applaud what our Georgia legislature is doing in trying to crack down on this situation.
Paul Broun
#63. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.
Bill Hybels
#64. To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.
Mircea Eliade
#65. However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
Samuel Hopkins
#66. There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#67. People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
Clare Short
#68. All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston
#69. It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.
Michael Ledeen
#70. Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy De Gourmont
#71. I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
Milan Kundera
#72. Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.
PZ Myers
#73. Ummm, anyone else getting the creeps? Breccan asked. Okay, let's vote. Who here is in favor of daylight? Come on, show of hands. Don't be shy.
Madison Thorne Grey
#74. I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.
Vincent Frank
#75. And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.
Robert MacNeil
#76. I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. When they have risen to public prominence on the backs of the gay community that they are part of and they prey on, I think that's absolutely deserving of outing.
Rachel Maddow
#77. I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.
Julius And Ethel Rosenberg
#78. Look how He's dusted me off and set me on my feet two hundred and fifty bazillion times. I'm fanatically in love with Him. So if this is true, I need to shed my need-for-everyone-to-like-me coat in favor of His robe of redemption, His mantle of humble submission.
Mary E. DeMuth
#79. You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.
Artur Davis
#80. I dismiss the pachyderms and the asses in favor of my axons and dendrites.
Laren Grey Umphlett
#81. A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.
Noam Chomsky
#82. The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.
Max Horkheimer
#83. Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
Luc De Clapiers
#84. I'm very curious to meet a guy who makes you completely forsake the scientific method in favor of unfounded supposition and speculation."
"It's called intuition!
Rosemary Clement-Moore
#85. I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.
Philip Warren Anderson
#86. Our memories are not simply faulty; they are faulty in favor of our ego.
John Ortberg
#87. I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
Will Rogers
#88. when faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning.
Ralph A. Rossum
#89. I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ...
Henry Clay
#90. The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
Bertrand Russell
#91. My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an art in itself.
Joyce Carol Oates
#92. Prayer: A petition that the laws of nature be suspended in favor of the petitioner; himself confessedly unworthy.
Christopher Hitchens
#93. Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.
Bill Maher
#94. I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.
Lee Strobel
#95. Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).
Josephus
#96. These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.
Herbert Read
#97. Students set up desks where you could sign petitions for legalizing marijuana or declare yourself in favor of homosexuality and the protection of whales; students thronged by.
Peter Straub
#98. By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.
Warren Ellis
#99. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
#100. I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo
