I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory.” — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Every established order tends to make its own entirely arbitrary system seem entirely natural.” — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington 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
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
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
[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
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
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any judgment born of collective agreement is, by nature, arbitrary, no matter how widely it is accepted.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal… — Walter E. Williams 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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