God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
~By Abraham Joshua Heschel ~
It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
~By Roger Ebert ~
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
~By J. P. Morgan ~
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~By George Santayana ~
My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.
~By Robert Moog ~
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
~By Doug Larson ~
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.
~By Bjork ~
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
~By Georg Solti ~
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
~By Richard Le Gallienne ~
Is it unreasonable to have proof of citizenship when entering another country?
~By Gwen Ifill ~
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
~By Immanuel Kant ~
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
~By Ken Follet ~
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
~By Jack Henry Abbott ~
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
~By Michael Ramsey ~
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
~By Charles de Secondat ~
That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
~By H. G. Wells ~
I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
~By Harvey Milk ~
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
~By Mary Astell ~
The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
~By William R. Alger ~
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
~By Vita Sackville-West ~
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~By John W. Gardner ~
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
~By Richard Rogers ~
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.
~By Marion Zimmer Bradley ~
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
~By Thomas More ~
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
~By Robert A. Heinlein ~
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
~By Johann G. Hamann ~
I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.
~By Conrad Hall ~
We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
~By Barry Diller ~
If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
~By Anne Bancroft ~
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
~By King Hassan II ~
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
~By Josiah Royce ~
I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here.
~By Eddie Money ~
I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.
~By Guy Clark ~
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
~By Will Cuppy ~
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
~By Sol Wachtler ~
When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
~By Ted Kotcheff ~
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
~By June Jordan ~
Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
~By Mark Thomas ~
I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.
~By John Poindexter ~
I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.
~By Eric Carr ~
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
~By Friedrich Engels ~
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
~By Tom G. Palmer ~
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought it was really funny and unique and just a different genre.
~By Danny DeVito ~
The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.
~By R. Foster Winans ~
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
~By Michael Stipe ~
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
~By Barney Frank ~
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
~By William Wiley ~
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
~By William Bennett ~
Reason is the servant of instinct.
~By Clarence Day ~
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
~By Kevin Costner ~
The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.
~By Lee Hazlewood ~
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
~By Charles Evers ~
I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
~By Thomas Browne ~
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.
~By Paul Farmer ~
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
~By Frances Wright ~
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
~By Jim Rohn ~
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
~By Saint Augustine ~
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.
~By Steve Irwin ~
What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
~By Brian Setzer ~
Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
~By Alexis Carrel ~
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
~By Lascelles Abercrombie ~
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
~By Allan Bloom ~
For some reason, it never crossed any mind in this administration to ask for the money back.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
~By Jon Lee Anderson ~
Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
~By Max Beckmann ~
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
There's no reason that just because you're a celebrity you can't write.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
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 of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
~By Nick Rahall ~
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!
~By Dante Hall ~
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
~By Martin Luther ~
In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
~By Sonia Sotomayor ~
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