reason Quotes

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.