#reason

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#birth #born #come #education #estate

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#characters #completely #constantly #fictional #great

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political

My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#amusing #because #bit #constructed #copied

I don't necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I'd much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I'd prefer to play the villain because there's a reason, there's a motive behind their madness. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#because #behind #cast #film #find

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#dramatic #face #i #i think #instrument

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#nothing #original #power #reason #regimes

When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#decide #diverted #end #follow #path

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#atonement #baseness #cruelty #deed #deep

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#america #american #american politics #belief #better