Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how… — Martha Beck 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… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no… — Shirley Franklin Copy Share Image
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing. — Moby Copy Share Image
The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making. — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe,… — Michio Kushi Copy Share Image
I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on… — Moby Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government… An armed society is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Will robot teachers replace human teachers? No, but they can complement them. Moreover, the could be sufficient in situations where there is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The first colour charts were unsystematic. They were based directly on commercial colour samples. They were still related to Pop Art. In… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Everything has a reason, including the selection of the photos, which was not arbitrary but appropriate to the period, its highs and… — Gerhard Richter 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… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further. — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours... — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at… — H. H. Asquith 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… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“How arbitrary, this distinction of time. How like humans to have to cut the infinite down to something they could believe they… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
![“The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.” quote by Matt Damon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e2/matt-damon-3371_arbitrary_the-director-s-in-charge-of-every-single_2696809.jpg)
![“Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made…” quote by John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/061/john-locke-814_arbitrary_tis-a-mistake-to-think-this-fault-tyrann_1921223.jpg)
![“Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.” quote by Emile Borel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70e/emile-borel-64739_arbitrary_any-argument-where-one-supposes-an-arbit_2039880.jpg)
