Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.
I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
The U. S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs. . . and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts. . . the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and be as well-organized as they are. This does not come natural to us more intellectual types, as we tend to be averse to hierarchy and groupthink; we don't like to be part of anything like a disciplined and well-organized team or movement. But the alternative is to continue losing politically - which means continued failure to protect the world's poor, who are really bearing the brunt of our disorganization.
I've always been very averse to innuendo, especially sexual. I find it cowardly or something.
When I was a kid out here in L. A. , I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.
There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
