Arbitrary Quotes

303 quotes by 261 authors

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused… — Kary Mullis
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. — Kary Mullis
The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws… — Rudolf Steiner
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of… — Thomas Sowell
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of… — John Maynard Keynes
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward and it can… — Stephen Shore
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they… — Denis Diderot
The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at… — N. T. Wright
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right… — Joseph Story
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of… — William McKinley
And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. — Kate Chopin
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with… — Charles Hermite
Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. — Charles Hartshorne
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without. — James R. Schlesinger
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in… — Rick Renzi
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography… — Edmund White
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary… — Richard Diebenkorn

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