Reason Quotes

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, "Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

Touring is always important to me. It's like a big IOU to my fans, because I know they are the reason I exist.

The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.