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Reason Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
- Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that…
- Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the…
- I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
- You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . .…
- Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves…
- Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
- Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
- My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
- As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
- We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be…
- I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is…
- In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it…
- What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is…
- The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough