Arbitrariness Quotes

25 Arbitrariness quotes by 24 unique authors

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. — Pope Benedict XVI
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no… — Pope John Paul II
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social… — Peter Singer
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]… — Harry A. Blackmun
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what… — Confucius
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful… — Eric Hoffer
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot of that, and… — Emma Thompson
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won… — Eric Metaxas
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner… — Daniel Kehlmann
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once shall become arts… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. — Jonathan Haidt
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own… — Zygmunt Bauman
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have… — Karl Marx
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. — Igor Stravinsky
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue… — Viktor E. Frankl
Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. — Pierre Bourdieu
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray
Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer. — John McWhorter
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried… — Emil Cioran
Words are not (except in theirown little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and… — John Austin

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