Quotes About Reasonable

I am worried about the Tory party because give or take the odd spasm we have always been seen as pragmatic, sensible, good at our job, sane, reasonable and having the interests of the whole country. Now it is beginning to look like a Brexit sect.

Outwardly he was calm, reasonable, patient. All his wildness was in his head - such a good place for it!

The anthropologist John Tooby adds that preposterous beliefs are more effective signals of coalitional loyalty than reasonable ones.20 Anyone can say that rocks fall down rather than up, but only a person who is truly committed to the brethren has a reason to say that God is three persons but also one person, or that the Democratic Party ran a child sex ring out of a Washington pizzeria.

evil, in fact, is perpetrated by people who are mostly ordinary and who respond to their circumstances, including provocation by the victim, in ways that they feel are reasonable and just.

Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response

How do we establish a balance between reasonable conservatism and revitalizing creativity?

I think a Person who is thus terrified with the imagination of Ghosts and Spectres much more reasonable, than one who contrary to the Reports of all Historians sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the Traditions of all Nations, thinks the Appearance of Spirits fabulous and groundless.

A person terrified with the imagination of spectres is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.

Fourth Amendment protection against a search has a "twofold requirement, first that a person have exhibited an actual (subjective) expectation of privacy and, second, that the expectation be one that society is prepared to recognize as 'reasonable.'"11

Despite Riley's efforts to protect his privacy on the ground, the Court said that he had no reasonable expectation of privacy from observation by a helicopter or a low-flying airplane.18

As long as an officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person has committed or might commit a crime, there can be a stop. And as long as an officer has "reasonable suspicion" that the person might have a weapon, there can be a frisk.

The Supreme Court ruled that the governor was not protected by absolute immunity, but could claim qualified immunity: "the existence of reasonable grounds for the belief formed at the time and in light of all the circumstances, coupled with good-faith belief, . . . affords a basis for qualified immunity of executive officers.

Scheuer test for qualified immunity thus contained both an objective component (was the act reasonable?) and a subjective component (did this officer believe in good faith that it was reasonable?).

he totality of the circumstances," the officer "had reasonable suspicion to believe that respondent was engaged in illegal activity.

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When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

That sacred space of conscience where you can exercise your rights in terms of religious freedom and deeply-held, reasonable beliefs is the core of human dignity. In fact, that's the basis for civilization itself. And when you lose that fundamental principle... you have no basis on which to build.

Rusbridger's curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian's quite quixotic mission.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact,

It becomes somewhat absurd when some claim that the sight of a Bible or a cross causes them so much psychological distress that it impinges upon their freedom. It is important that we learn to be reasonable and tolerant of everyone's beliefs without going to such extremes that we compromise everyone's rights.

No intelligent investor, no matter how starved for yield, would ever buy a stock for its dividend income alone; the company and its businesses must be solid, and its stock price must be reasonable.

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?