The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education?… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point.… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image