Quote by Susan Neiman

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed…

— Winston Graham

“...Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.”

— Immanuel Kant

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

— Russell M. Nelson

“Human behavior is influenced more strongly by the rules we have about how things are supposed to work than by our actual experience.”

— Susan M. Orsillo

“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we form is…

— Margaret R. Graver

“If norms are oppressive, try to foster acceptance of deviations, don't try to destroy the norms themselves — that's a fool's errand.”

— T.J. Kirk

“Human behavior isn’t necessarily logical, nor does it necessarily conform to our expectations. What each of us thinks of as logical is a reflection…

— Philip Houston

“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong) for us.…

— Noam Chomsky

“We have an idea of what is right or wrong. And we can debate moral issues as ideas. But moral *standards* are not ideas;…

— Karl Marlantes

“Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.”

— Salman Aziz

“Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.”

— Scott Adams

“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws are arrived…

— Tom Cheetham