Quotes About Reason

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.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

I'm very careful with my emotions, and I don't let them run free. If I'm upset, it's usually for a very good, very deep reason.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

There is always a perfectly good excuse, always a reason not to. The hardest freedom to win is the freedom from one's excuses.

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

I'm blessed with good health for which I'm deeply grateful, so for that reason, I feel so good. Everybody else is far more excited about the 90 than I am.

He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

No producer should revive a play unless they have a very good reason for it. I think there's quite enough about a good play to make it available to new audiences.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.

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