Practical Reasons Quotes

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons.

Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

We need a romantic illusion to embark on relationships in the first place. After that, they survive or fail for other, more practical reasons.

Love was not something that people married for generally in those days. They married for security. They married for economic reasons, you know, companionship - but not love.

While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.