Arbitrarily Quotes
54 quotes by 48 authors
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There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t…
— Daniil Kharms
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What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
— Susan Glaspell
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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many…
— Claude Pepper
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As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as…
— Leon Krier
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When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded…
— Samantha Power
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Our public schools arbitrarily define science as explaining the world by natural processes alone. In essence, a religion of naturalism is being imposed on millions…
— Ken Ham
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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and…
— Richard Dawkins
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Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently -…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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You have the rights to arbitrarily break someone's heart, play with their feelings, rape them, or even kill them. But be sure to keep in…
— Mak_786
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To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare…
— Thomas Jefferson
Who Wrote These Arbitrarily Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 54 Arbitrarily Quotes, led by these top contributors: