Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their… — Lysander Spooner
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for… — Lysander Spooner
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. — Lysander Spooner
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. — George Washington
I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook… — Mark Twain
There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at… — Elizabeth Berg
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only… — Edith Wharton
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. — Frances Mayes
Personally, I believe â€œYoung Adultâ€ to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character whoâ€™s not quite… — Shannon Hale
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it… — Steve Martin
Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to… — Condoleezza Rice
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have… — Lynne Truss
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule — Donald A. Norman
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
All colours are arbitrary. — Carl Sagan
For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at… — Barack Obama
To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and… — Malcolm Gladwell
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call him a character… — Philip Pullman
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience… — Derrick Jensen

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