“So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.” LongWarStatesGovernmentPeaceCommunityPossibilityAccountsRemainsInternationalReasonableSovereignInternational Community Book:The Causes of Wars and Other Essays Source: The Causes of Wars and Other Essays
“I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveWarEndsGovernmentChanceSecurityPossibilityAccountsLifetimeReasonableJapanAlliesEnd Of The WorldMenace Author:Winston Churchill
“Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account. The head writer of the I Love Lucy show, Madelyn Pugh, was a schoolmate of mine. Dan Wakefield. Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.” WritingStoriesShowsHellStudentsMinesNewsAccountsHeyThings To DoReasonablePrintAdsEchoesPrintingLucyDummyNews StoriesSchoolmates Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If you were going to be attracted to a mystical faith which involved the contemplative life, Buddhism would be quite reasonable. But then, not everybody is a budding mystic. In fact, it's pretty certain that very few people are. So another kind of religion, one that was perhaps more pragmatic and service-oriented, might appeal to those others. So I think you have to take your values into account.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindFactsMightWould BeCertainValuesBuddhismInvolvedAccountsAppealsReasonableMysticalMysticPragmaticContemplativeContemplative Life Author:Ninian Smart
“Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.” HumansNatureAccountsExcuseReasonable Book:The Modern Temper Source: The Modern Temper