#reasonable

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#equality #fair #reasonable #work-ethic #equality

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time. ↗

— David Bruce

#american #another #bring #could #countries

There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#concern #data #misleading #particular #perspective

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#around #changed #make #men #reasonable

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#answers #doctor #expect #healing #health

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love. ↗

— Mae West

#probably #reasonable #she #woman

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#believe #color #comes #crosses #killing