Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is. — Paul Auster
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power. — Annie Besant
I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical… — Anthony Bourdain
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. — William S. Burroughs
Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say. — Felicity Jones
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster… — Lewis Mumford
We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask… — Margaret Fuller
So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception. — Ron Paul
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits… — Friedrich Ratzel
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. — Ted Nelson
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls… — Philip Guston
Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully. — Vincent Van Gogh
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney

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