Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“...it's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind.” — Leslie Ford Copy Share Image
Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That’s Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)” — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view:… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
We've seen in terms of the reaction to some proposals in the Budget already how resistant that public opinion is to, first… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older.… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
“Every poem, for me, begins with a question I don’t have the answer to, and here, in ‘Hypothesis,’ the question is whether… — Paul Tran Copy Share Image
“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. In the world as it is, the right things are… — Saul D. Alinsky Copy Share Image
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice. — Billy Joel 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
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
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
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
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
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
