#reason

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#cannot #dare #fool #reason #slave

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#am #denying #grim #humanity #i

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#beastly #being #believer #creature #definitely

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

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#feeling #history #light #matter #older

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place. ↗

— Bobby Bonilla

#clicked #everything #fell #get #into

If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#american people #amtrak #blatant #congress #cuts

My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious. ↗

— Foxy Brown

#big #big difference #coming #cried #cry