Reason Quotes - Page 13

• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Being True, Shows

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.19, Routledge

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• The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

  Willie Dixon

  Song, Ignorance, Evil

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• I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason

  Dele Momodu

  Character, Frustration, Wish

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• The reason men rule is because women let them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Men

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

  Jessica Zafra

  Stupid, People, Pay

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

  T.C. Boyle

  Writing, Journey, Feelings

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• I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Emotion

  "Country-pop star Shelby Lynne: an unfiltered original". Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview, www.denverpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Sick, Doing Nothing

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• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Believe, Men

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• In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Hate, Blood, Rage

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1989). “Early Poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Greed, Stealing

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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Heart, Laughing, Balance

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 10, 2014

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• No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body than he who does less, inasmuch as neither virtue nor merit consists therein; for otherwise he would be an evil case, who for some legitimate reason was unable to do actual penance. Merit consists in the virtue of love alone, flavored with the light of true discretion without which the soul is worth nothing.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Light, Evil, Giving

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• And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Sanity, No Reason

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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• Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.

  Sara Blakely

  Decision, One Day, Failing

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• There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.

  R. D. Laing

  Obedient

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• Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

  Peter De Vries

  Starting, Awfulness

  Peter De Vries (2012). “The Blood of the Lamb: A Novel”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.

  Greg Graffin

  Growing Up, Expression, Punk

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• If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Baseball, People, Bats

  "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

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• And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, People, Mind

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• For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Writing, Swings, Intimidating

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• I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted. I have a lot more to drink. For that reason, the political numbers game will be played. I know the rules of their game now and how to play it.

  Harvey Milk

  Giving Up, Games, Play

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• No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

  Shakti Gawain

  Stupid, Behavior, Scoundrels

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• The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

  Saul Williams

  Reflection, Giving, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• I'm for a multi-racial world in which each race keeps to itself, in harmony with the other races. Like in a garden, you have flowerbeds of roses and flowerbeds of carnations and irises and different other flowers. They don't intermarry. They stay separate, and each one has its beauty. . . . I'm against colonialism for the reason that colonialism infects the master as well as the slave. It even infects the master more.

  Savitri Devi

  Flower, Garden, Race

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