Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington Copy Share Image
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“My name is not Sah. Call me Odenigbo.' 'Yes, sah.' 'Odenigbo will always be my name. Sir is arbitrary. You could be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
Everything in life is arbitrary yet must be over-determined in literature. Jean McGarry knows how to tell a persuasive tale illuminating these… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The seams, the laminae between the various worlds the past present and future as well as the living and the nonliving may… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself…His task was to discover his own destiny -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
King is a title which translated into several languages, signifies a magistrate with as many different degrees of power as there are… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of… — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
I read things like theology, and I read about science, 'Scientific American' and publications like that, because they stimulate again and again… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?…The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. — Charles Hartshorne Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
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