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“From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.”

World Desire Organization Trade Workers Congress Rational Platforms

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.”

Men Way May Doe Reason Done Past Desire Evil He Man Regard Notion Punishment Rational Beast Fury Undone Unreasonable Doers Evil Doers Past Wrongs

Author:Plato

“Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.”

Desire Liberty Equal Understood Rational

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.”

Thinking Men Reason Feelings Desire Process Rational

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.”

People War Desire Brain Practice Magic Rational Primitive Sophisticated Stem Imperatives Coexist Love And War

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear; a certain amount rational, an enormous amount irrational. All political cruelties stem from that overwhelming fear. To push back the threatening forces, to offer primitive sacrifices, to give up some in the hope that others will be savedthat is the power struggle. That is the outsidedness of the poor, the feeble, the infantile. That is the outsidedness of Jews. That is the outsidedness of blacks. That is the outsidedness of women.”

“All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.”

Thinking Death Desire My Own Alive Creatures Rational Buried Indifferent Burial

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters