Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring security.War can only… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. — Maurice Maeterlinck
The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all… — Edna Lewis
For five days, I had no sleep. None. I did not sleep. And the last day, the reason I lasted, I drank 20 Red Bulls,… — Sam Farha
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. — Alexander Pope
You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I… — Chris Corrigan
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to. — Jennifer Jason Leigh
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. — Nancy Astor
in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and… — Thomas Jefferson
A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation… — Niccolo Machiavelli
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs… — J. William Fulbright

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