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- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Peter Singer
- I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the… — 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… — Confucius
- To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could… — Eric Hoffer
- Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson
- The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom… — Eric Metaxas
- It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time… — Daniel Kehlmann
- Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice. — Jonathan Haidt