Arbitrarily Quotes

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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss… — Conrad Burns
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare… — Thomas Jefferson
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And… — Kim Stanley Robinson
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is… — Thomas Sowell
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense… — Albert Einstein
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of… — John Maynard Keynes
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best… — Murray Rothbard
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars for illegal substances… — Paul Krassner
Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently… — H. L. Mencken
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to… — Freeman Dyson
To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale.… — Albert Schweitzer
Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the… — Paul Romer
The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials… — Conrad Black
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza.… — Joshua Foer
That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office… — John F. Kennedy
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws. — Karl Marx
Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession… — Marquis de Sade
A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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