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  • The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.

    Funny   Humor   Men  
    'Uncommon Law' (1935) 'The Reasonable Man'
  • Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.56, Modern Library
  • There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

    Men   May   Honest  
    Speech to the First Protectorate Parliament, September 12, 1654.
  • And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

    Men   Justice   Police  
    Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.163, Da Capo Press
  • With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

    Success   Men   Tyrants  
    William Lloyd Garrison, Walter McIntosh Merrill, Louis Ruchames (1971). “The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: I will be heard, 1822-1835”, p.101, Harvard University Press
  • We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion.

    God   Men   Thinking  
  • Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

    Men   Doubt   World  
    Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, Bertrand Russell
  • The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

    Men   Justice   Triggers  
    Jean Genet (1960). “The Balcony: (Le Balcon) a Play in Nine Scenes”
  • Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man in the Cartesian tradition.

    Plato   Men   Advice  
  • Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

  • The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

  • The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

    Men   Progress   Needs  
  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

    War   Mean   Men  
    Alexander Hamilton, Morton J. Frisch (1985). “Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton”, Aei Pr
  • Reasonable men are not reasonable when you're in the bubbles which have characterized capitalism since the beginning of time.

  • It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

    Fighting   Men   Desire  
    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 165), 1948.
  • Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

    Strong   Mind   Reason  
    'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Reason'
  • A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

    Men   Practice   Needs  
  • You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

    Back to Methuselah pt. 1, act 1 (1921). This was a favorite quotation of Robert F. Kennedy's, and Edward M. Kennedy used it in his eulogy of Robert Kennedy.
  • The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

    War   Men   Love Is  
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.74, Routledge
  • Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

    Men   Order   Imagination  
    William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.179, Cambridge University Press
  • Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

    War   Gun   Men  
    H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  • It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The simple cannot fathom how any man would dare presume to prevail, while the wise are amazed that any reasonable man would want the world, assuming he could get it.

    Wise   Men   Power  
  • I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

    Lying   Past   Men  
    "Deadline: The Newsflesh Trilogy".
  • All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18
  • I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

    Believe   Fall   Men  
  • A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

    Men   People   Progress  
  • History is rarely made by reasonable men.

    Men   Made   Reasonable  
    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.324, Head of Zeus
  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow
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