Desirable Quotes

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. (Plutarch)
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. View quote
Livy
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. View quote
Woody Allen
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. View quote
James Baldwin
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. View quote
Neil Kinnock
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not. View quote
John Steinbeck
The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. (Mark Twain)
Democracy in the sense of political equality and majority rule is by no means the most desirable, that is, optimal solution for all kinds of associations. View quote
Robert A. Dahl
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I don't recall that I have said - and I don't think that I really feel - that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood - or even that it would be desirable - to have a single government elected by the people of the world. View quote
David Rockefeller
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism; and with its traditionalistic, anti-intellectual, and often mystical propensities it will never, except in short periods of disillusionment, appeal to the young and all those others who believe that some changes are desirable if this world is to become a better place. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that animals are indefinitely perfectible. View quote
Thomas Malthus
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. View quote
Alfred Marshall
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman. View quote
W. H. Auden
The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives. (Robert Owen)
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter. View quote
David Gemmell
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose. View quote
Abraham Maslow