“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”— George Washinton Carver, goodreads.com
“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“You know what I think? I think there's a reason for everything. And I think that there's a plan for everyone. And I think that God has a big plan for me. Just not in this life.”— Gia Carangi, astropunkk.tumblr.com
“No one has ever loved me As deeply as you. No one has truly shown me What love could be like until now: Not pretty or safe or easy But more than I ever knew. Love within reason - That isn't love. And I've learned that from you..”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“Jed: Bad things happen to good people all the time, Andy, for no reason what-so-ever..”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.”— Jacques Cousteau, goodreads.com
“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in col…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time. It is therefore at least millions to one that the repor…”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org