Rational

Famous quotes containing the word rational:

    ...if we would be and do all that as a rational being we should desire, we must resolve to govern ourselves; we must seek diversity of interests; dread to be without an object and without mental occupation; and try to balance work for the body and work for the mind.
    Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)

    ... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
    Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
    Titus Livius (Livy)