Reason Quotes

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

~ Patrick O'brian

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

~ Bruce Cameron

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

~ Jeff Buckley

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

~ Stephen Harper

It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

~ Timothy Thomas Fortune

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

~ Jonathan Swift

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

~ Tom G. Palmer

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

~ Jonathan Mayhew

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

~ Dan Pfeiffer

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

~ Ashley Rickards

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

~ Alexander Pope

I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

~ John Lydon

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

~ Thomas Gray

I kept a very full diary of my relationship with Nixon, for some strange reason, until he became president.

~ Billy Graham

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

~ Calvin Klein

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

~ Louis Macneice

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

~ Martha Graham

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~ Virginia Woolf

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

~ Benjamin Franklin

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

~ Publilius Syrus

The biggest aggravation in the Arab world, the biggest reason for their anger toward us and the creation of those suicide terrorists, is Israel and the difficulty with the Palestinian issue.

~ Mario Cuomo

Mental fitness is served by consciously redirecting our attention away from the constant bombardment from the media whose reason to be seems to be focused on keeping us in a state of constant alert.

~ David Perlmutter

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.

~ Saul Alinsky

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

~ Alexander Hamilton

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

~ Marilyn Manson

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

~ Theodor Herzl

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

~ Ayn Rand

The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.

~ Valerie Plame

Russia has every reason to dispose of its nuclear arsenal... to suit its interests and international legal obligations.

~ Sergei Lavrov

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

~ Karl Pilkington

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

~ Emily Blunt

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

~ Karl Popper

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche