202 Rational Quotes for You to Enjoy

Heart Cynical Down Way Administration Religious John Scary More Rational Could Take Always George Were George Bush Than Bush Bush Administration Us Deep Deep Down Among

The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate. Michael Ignatieff

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. Michael Shermer

Before Thinking Seeing Rational Empirical Just Being Skeptic Means Believing

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions. Mohammad Javad Zarif

War Conflict People Sometimes Word Thought Insecurity Worried Abandoned Would About Rational Civilized Had Tension Make Decisions Use Wars

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person. Moon Jae-in

Kim Rational Person

The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now it means those convictions are not even subject to rational debate. Nancy Pearcey

Debate Word Convictions Tolerance Our Once Those Rational Arena Rationally Argue Subject Public Means Meant Even Now Deepest Right

I think political parties can be funded in a perfectly rational way without being corrupt. Naveen Patnaik

Political Think Way Corrupt Rational Perfectly Parties Without Political Parties Being

Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments. Nicholas Kristof

People Made Argument Incredibly Once Intuitively More Rational Tend Individual Through Emotional Open Powerful Journalists Know Scientists Brain Discovering Stories Which Storytelling Connection Portals

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Nick Harkaway

Democracy Capitalism Heart People Simple Free Assumption Relatively Borrow Both Rational Term Make Board Decisions Across Medical Competent

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies. Pankaj Mishra

War Events Bipolar Cold Other Cold War Other Countries Relatively Project Defined Web Feasible More Rational Alliance Countries Over Era Been May Stable Influence Which

In the end, rational policy is always good. Paul Keating

Good Rational Policy Always End In The End

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that. Paul Samuelson

People Care Judgment Society Meeting Our Has-Been Posterity About Rational Had Consumption Nobody Economically Town Said Been Up American Did Done Going Anything American People Us American Society Now Binge Ever

Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. Peter Singer

Strong Own Too Addictions Our Complex Temptations Rational Tendency Long-Term Yield May Human Short-Term Decision-Making Planning Even

Rational Quotes

No more rational quotes