#reason

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#country #expectation #individual #law #mental

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#accused #afford #aggression #arab #because

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#does #easily #gets #his #into

One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#childhoods #children #first #get #having

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#body #difference #facts #i #like

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#each #either #errors #figure #group

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#career #challenge #city #different #different parts

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#divorce #financial #life #marriage #reason

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it. ↗

— David Simon

#make #only #reason #story #wants

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less