“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
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe 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 arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants… — John Stossel 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
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel 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
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is the wicked deception of love that it begins by making us dwell not upon a woman in the outside world… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know… — Winston Graham Copy Share Image
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary. — Alexandra Harney Copy Share Image
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve… — Richard Salsman Copy Share Image
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at… — Kate Chopin 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 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)
![“[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.” quote by Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ef/algernon-sidney-20606_advantage_i-f-vice-and-corruption-prevail-liberty_1785566.jpg)
