#unreason

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#catch #every #i #i am #myself

The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework. ↗

— John Sununu

#compliance #constant #constant need #cost #either

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

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