Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection… — Leonard Susskind
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation… — William Robertson Smith
The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would… — John Bates Clark
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the… — William H. Seward
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of… — Johann Most
The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown… — Nick Clegg
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels… — Francoise Sagan
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice. — Anthony Lewis
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are… — Henry Louis Mencken
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the… — John Locke
The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is… — Wyndham Lewis
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity — Edmund Burke
'The Founding Fathers established a nation under God; Ruled not by arbitrary decrees of Kings or whims, of entrenched elites but by the consent of… — Andrew Guzaldo
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a… — Daniel H Hill
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille
3D is not an arbitrary choice. It's not a crass, commercial endeavor. — Billy Zane
You have the right of youth to arbitrary, break someone's heart, or played with someone's feelings, or forced to sexually satisfaction from any girl, want… — Mak_786
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is… — John Dickinson
If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes, under… — John Dickinson

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