Sentences with phrase «irrational small people»

It wears you down to continually try and fail to convince irrational small people to do what you ask all day.

Not exact matches

For example, in the bear market environment of the early 1970s, countless people were apoplectic over an irrational fear that ITT (the International Telephone and Telegraph company), which had begun a program of taking over smaller companies, would take over the world.

I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!

The situation in Rwanda in the»90s, for example, didn't just happen because of some irrational ethnic or political agenda, it happened at least in part because too many people had too little land to support themselves, yet everyone depended on small - scale farming (average farm size on the order of a few acres) for subsistence.

In other words, it would be irrational to infer that a person had an intent to traffic on the basis of his or her possession of a very small quantity of narcotics.