When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good… — Kenneth C. Frazier Copy Share Image
In comparison to the emotionally-charged axing of a striker, Ruud van Nistelrooy, who averaged 30 goals a season, even the sale of… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,” Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction… — Doug Graham Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God,… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as… — Alex Pentland Copy Share Image
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
