Quotes of: Human-reason Keyword

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

Bill Dedman

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Wendell Berry

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

Troy Vincent

Pain beneath every breath is the only reason of someones lifelong success.

Vishal Bhojwani

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

Voltaire

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

Yelawolf

In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.

Dominic Cooper

I'm short and curvy, but I think people want to work with me for reasons other than what I look like.

Josephine de La Baume

I am blessed beyond reason with women friends.

Jane Fonda

I think one reason I really like women and like working with women is because of my sisters.

Michael Keaton

But the reason that women's football is still unknown is because it's not on television and not widely publicised for a wide majority of the leagues in the world.

Marta

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

Steve Albini

Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.

Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language

We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.

The Celestine Prophecy

Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people have lived peaceful, co-operative lives without rulers, leaders, politicians, soldiers, policemen and taxmen.

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.

Daniel Deronda

Humans want to conquer everyone they can, and buy everything they see. I think this is because humans have forgotten how to be happy. It's not their fault - it's not easy figuring out how to be happy in these days of anything-but-moderation.

The Dust of 100 Dogs

If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn’t and the whole of humanity st...

Destined for Oblivion: As Nature Intended

Are you saying the end of human suffering began with an amusement park?” “I’m saying the end of human suffering is a myth.” “But everyone’s happy.” “You think that just because a person doesn’t question the way the system works that...

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