Arbitrary Rules Quotes
- We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson
- Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker
- Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert
- Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted. — Michael Behe
- Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. — Robert Breault
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt