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
There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. — Marshall McLuhan 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
There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. — Liz Curtis Higgs Copy Share Image
Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive… — Frederick Sommer Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
“Exactly. It all just seems so arbitrary and political and”—come on, Blake, finish strong, puritanical, pathological, perforated, Panamanian—“weird.” — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions. — Wassily Leontief 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 error which underlies the very existence of this debate is that there is some kind of perfect Platonic form of the… — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphereThe ideas of… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Maybe being an adult wasn't crossing some arbitrary age line into wisdom. Maybe it was like anything else - training wheels and… — Megan Crane 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
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Being kind doesn't mean being soft or a wuss. Kindness is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of confidence.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Don't make a big distinction between fiction and non-fiction. These are arbitrary distinctions... — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
“All the arbitrary things we need to remember add up to unwitting tyranny” — Don Norman Copy Share Image
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
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