One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge;… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. I suppose that's true to everyone. Even the people we'd paint as… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature… — Bertha von Suttner Copy Share Image
Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Monogamy is god's way of making death seem like a more reasonable option. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program. — Jinzaburo Takagi Copy Share Image
The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
I want to do every kind of role with a reasonable amount of panache. I want to be a fair combination of… — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is… — Fairfax M. Cone Copy Share Image
The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them… — Dave Kopel Copy Share Image
We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
