“Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.”
“Reason without emotion is often a mask for cruelty; emotion without reason can allow people to excuse all sorts of excesses.”
“Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.”
“Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.”
“Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.”
“In politics, when reason and emotion collide, emotion invariably wins”