Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and…

It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our…

— John Ensign

I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some…

— Edward Einhorn

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an…

— Gregory David Roberts

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their…

— Ai Weiwei

Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or…

— Shirin Ebadi

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and…

— Laurence Steinberg

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the…

— Daniel Webster

“nothing is arbitrary in this whole world, there is a good reason behind each and everything…”

— Nikhil Kumar

Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.

— Michael O'Rielly

No arbitrary regulation, no act of the legislature, can add anything to the capital of the country; it can only force it into artificial…

— John Ramsay McCulloch

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon