Rationale Quotes

54 quotes by 52 authors

• Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a… — Ian Macfarlane
• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it… — Wernher von Braun
• Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran
• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two… — Samuel L. Jackson
• It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply… — Richard Dawkins
• Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. — James J. Martin
• Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a… — Loren Eiseley
• For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
• I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken… — Richard Attenborough
• To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in… — Seth Klarman
• If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the… — Diane Ravitch
• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to… — Sheila Jeffreys
• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for… — John Taylor Gatto
• 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 can't produce children,… — Richard Posner
• The rationale that etiquette should be eschewed because it fosters inequality does not ring true in a society that openly admits to a feverish interest… — Judith Martin
• What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing from its subjects… — Joseph Sobran
• Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact… — Josh Marshall
• Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect… — Tony Evans
• If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as… — Barry Boehm
• Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith. — Nathan Myhrvold

Who Wrote These Rationale Quotes

52 authors contributed a total of 54 Rationale Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Rationale Quotes by Joseph Sobran
• 2 Rationale Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
• 1 Rationale Quote by Ezekiel Emanuel
• 1 Rationale Quote by Scott McClellan
• 1 Rationale Quote by Gustave Eiffel
• 1 Rationale Quote by Howard Zinn
• 1 Rationale Quote by Marilyn Ferguson
• 1 Rationale Quote by George Saunders
• 1 Rationale Quote by Billy Joel
• 1 Rationale Quote by Edward Kennedy
• 1 Rationale Quote by Lindsey Graham
• 1 Rationale Quote by Norman Lear
• 1 Rationale Quote by Elaine Pagels
• 1 Rationale Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller
• 1 Rationale Quote by Adrian Desmond
• 1 Rationale Quote by Jonathan Gottschall
• 1 Rationale Quote by Ian Macfarlane
• 1 Rationale Quote by Criss Jami
• 1 Rationale Quote by Wernher von Braun
• 1 Rationale Quote by Sebastian Junger
• 1 Rationale Quote by Lucy Powell
• 1 Rationale Quote by Samuel L. Jackson
• 1 Rationale Quote by R A Salvatore
• 1 Rationale Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Rationale Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson