Arbitrary Quotes · Page 12

A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be…

— Vaclav Havel

Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.

— Tibor R. Machan

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

— Laurence Steinberg

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they…

— Thomas Jefferson

Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon –…

— Wassily Kandinsky

If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe,…

— Tao Lin

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

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary.…

— Moby

As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.…

— Judith Butler

I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without…

— Tom Robbins

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more…

— Malcolm Gladwell

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

— Wassily Leontief

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is…

— Edward Jenks

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty…

— Edward Gibbon

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit…

— Amartya Sen

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which…

— Thomas Paine

The error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the…

— Paul Vixie

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

— Abbie Hoffman

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

— Andy Rooney

Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who…

— Flora Tristan

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity…

— David Ricardo

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and…

— John Locke