#unreason

I don't mind if I show myself being cheap or unreasonable sometimes. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cheap #i #mind #myself #show

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason. ↗

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

#science #unreason #relationship

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#gratify #insolent #patriot #refusing #starts

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations