#reason

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#ambition #engage #fear #love #need

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#electricity #humanity #justice #love #me

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attacks #because #big #chunk #deficit

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#always #any #anything #carry #committee

But critics of the war have no reason to regret their views. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#no reason #reason #regret #their #views

What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument. ↗

— Susan Collins

#argument #away #because #been #carve

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#mind #peace #reason #rules #where

By the Obama administration's reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs. ↗

— John Cornyn

#any #broccoli #care costs #constitutionally #contributed

Cynicism is intellectual treason. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#intellectual #treason

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere. ↗

— Ice Cube

#everywhere #know #no reason #over #people