Be Reasonable (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780879758677)

- civil liberties
- fanatics and true believers
- intolerance
- individual liberties and personal freedom
- mysticism and religion
- public opinion and mass media
- rationalism
- skepticism
- state power
- utopianism, idealism and reformist zeal
Included are selections from classic and modern authors in all literary genres, both prose and poetry, including Brooks Adams, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, William F. Buckley, Jr., G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Darrow, Henry Fielding, Thomas Jefferson, Baron de Montesquieu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bertrand Russell, Seneca, William Shakespeare, G.B. Shaw, Jonathan Swift, Margaret Thatcher, Voltaire, W.B. Yeats, and hundreds of others.
Quotations in all categories are listed alphabetically by author and indexed for ease of reference. This will prove a standard reference work for writers, educators, students, and all those committed to intellectual freedom and individual liberties.

Author: Laird Wilcox
ISBN-10: 0879758678
ISBN-13: 9780879758677
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1994
Pages: 361
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.57h x 6.37w x 1.29d