I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say:… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to believe that one could come to any substantive understanding of politics by discussing abstractly the good,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons,… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously. — Toto Wolff Copy Share Image
The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work.… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I think most people, most rational people, most people that I would feel comfortable sitting in a room with, understand that wrestling… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
