False Preference

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or preference:

“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Among all the world’s races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)