We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with… — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of therules… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Stupid arbitrary shit means it will take a movie star to die and a hemophiliac teenager to die before ordinary people start… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God… — James Otis Copy Share Image
To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories,… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
“What is arbitrary is by definition tyrannical. It is based upon pure will, unguided by reason. Those who wish to base their… — Robert R. Reilly Copy Share Image
The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,… — John Locke 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… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
