Arbitrary Quote by Abigail Adams Download Open image “Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.” — Abigail Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arbitrary Broken Hard Liable Power
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for. — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I can hear of the brilliant accomplishments of any of my sex with pleasure and rejoice in that liberality of sentiment which acknowledges them. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past away since… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The only chance for much intellectual improvement in the female sex, was to be found in the families of the educated class and in… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image