Reasonable Quotes

815 Reasonable quotes by 631 unique authors

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed… — Joseph Butler
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before… — S I Hayakawa
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear… — H.G. Wells
I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient… — Edward Snowden
For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election. — Glenn Greenwald
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. — David Harsanyi
The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the… — Jim Harrison
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a… — Chris Van Hollen
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of… — John Rawls
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such… — Bertrand Russell
There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,… — P.J. O'Rourke
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm. — Abraham Lincoln
The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the… — George Bernard Shaw
If WE claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to… — William James
Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you… — Erving Goffman
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind — Roy Keane
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of… — R. H. Tawney
I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure… — E. W. Howe
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal… — Nick Rahall
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so… — Jim Rohn
The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big enough… — Janet Yellen
It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are… — Margaret Thatcher
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate — John Ashcroft

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