Officially she was there to liaise with me on the case…

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I…

— Norman Jewison

“We are women. We talk. We all do. I love to talk. It's my reason for being. No. It's my raison d'etre. Now that…

— Suzy Valtsioti

“The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to know," which…

— Milan Kundera

Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'être only as a preparation for an action and a meaning solely in relation to…

— Anonymous

Edward Snowden is anything but narcissist. In fact, I wonder every day how he could come up with the courage, muster the courage to…

— Lawrence Wilkerson

“To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

— Brendan Hunt

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science…

— Steven Chu

Possessions aren't my raison d'etre.

— Mick Hucknall

“I just don't understand why some people think that every book you read ought to be "improving". No one goes to the cinema with…

— Catherine Jones

“If I know the classical psychological theories well enough to pass my comps and can reformulate them in ways that can impress peer reviewers…

— Stephen Muse

“Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.”

— Kee Malesky