I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon –… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“How could the disciplines and the power that functions in them appear arbitrary, when they merely operate the mechanisms of justice itself,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad… — Moby Copy Share Image
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Terrorists can endanger some of us, but the war on terror endangers us all. How much more can the Constitution be diminished… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a… — H. H. Asquith Copy Share Image
I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
“Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue.… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
