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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
People
Power
Liberties
Nip
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Only
Bud
Maxim
Shoots
Any
Which
Ever
Preserve
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature
Suffering
Will
Arbitrary
Seems
Never
Another
Inflicted
Us
Painful
Chance
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Liberty
Power
Ruins
Easily
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Abuse
Most
Established
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 with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Man
Rights
Money
Will
Submit
Own
Other
Soldiers
Arbitrary
He
Taken
Over
Him
Without
Hire
His
Personal
Any
So-Called
Stand
Compel
Consent
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead
Culture
Gift
Achieve
Will
Values
Rich
Recognize
Must
Arbitrary
Find
Fabric
Weave
Diverse
Fitting
Contrasting
Human
Place
Which
Social
Richer
Social Fabric
Less
Whole
Each
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
Marshall McLuhan
Values
Our
Our Lives
Arbitrary
Perceptions
Invest
Exist
Artificial
Media
Lives
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead
Work
Learning
Age
Old
Old Age
Arbitrary
Put
False
Childhood
Middle
Middle Age
Regrets
Play
Utterly
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob Dylan
Life
Death
God
Time
You
Better
Beneficent
Arbitrary
About
Giver
Almighty
Almighty God
Powerful
Days
Know
Most
Most Powerful
Learn
Deal
How
Hear
Hearing
Lot
Anything
Mean
Creator
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Truth
World
Power
Humane
Destroy
Possession
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Magnanimity
Over
Always
Sensibility
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Character
Too
Criminal
Arbitrary
Most
Oligarchy
Slave
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
Stephen Hawking
History
Science
Events
Reflect
Has-Been
Arbitrary
Inspired
Divinely
Underlying
Been
Gradual
May
Order
Happen
Which
Realization
Manner
Certain
Whole
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan
Patriotism
Real Estate
Arbitrary
Above
Principles
Real
Often
Estate
The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
Carl Sagan
Space
Earth
Favorite
Arbitrary
Purely
Between
Boundary
Always
Interested
Planet
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 of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
Anthony Bourdain
Me
Dog
Try
Situation
Would
Would-Be
Arbitrary
Eating
Crossing
Cat
Hypocritical
Line
Very
Gracefully
Where
Hard
Avoid
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
Han Fei
Law
Men
Judgment
Ruler
Arbitrary
Select
He
Merits
Himself
Makes
Intelligent
Measure
Appointment
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Mercy Otis Warren
Love
Power
Lust
All Nations
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Degrees
Prevailed
Civilization
Proportion
Uncontrolled
Perhaps
Domination
Nations
Among
We know that freedom has many dimensions. It is the right of the man who tills the land to own the land; the right of the workers to join together to seek better conditions of labor; the right of businessmen to use ingenuity and foresight to produce and distribute without arbitrary interference in a truly competitive economy.
Robert Kennedy
Freedom
Man
Together
Better
Own
Dimensions
Arbitrary
Distribute
Seek
Join
Economy
Know
Without
Truly
Conditions
Foresight
Labor
Land
Ingenuity
Produce
Workers
Interference
Use
Who
Businessmen
Many
Right
Competitive
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman
Legal
Political
Distinctions
Arbitrary
Abuse
Understand
Clinical
Often
Use
Illegal
Medical
I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
Adrian Lyne
Love
Nature
Arbitrary
About
Make
Movie
Wanted
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
Ai Weiwei
Time
Family
You
People
Obey
Police
Power
Whatever
Own
Society
Negotiation
Tell
All People
Arbitrary
Detention
Laws
Only
Except
Clearly
Crush
Days
Like
Discussion
Any
Want
After
Realise
China
Your
Whole
Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works - winning best actor is arbitrary.
Alan Arkin
Best
Every
Universe
Other
Way
Arbitrary
Winning
Physicist
Knows
Isolate
Connect
Works
Each
Actor
Things
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney
Prevail
Corruption
Liberty
Power
Virtue
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Advantage
Subsist
Established
Vice
Cannot
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
Annie Besant
Science
Power
Birth
Rang
Arbitrary
Constantly
Supreme
Supreme Power
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
Work
Hard Work
Freedom
Injustice
Law
Power
Rulers
Citizens
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Voices
Trusted
Up
Cannot
Hard
Raise
With the 5-to-4 decision upholding Trump's Muslim ban, arbitrary discrimination is now formal U.S. policy, celebrated by a president who campaigned on a 'total ban' of Muslims entering the United States.
Ben Rhodes
Decision
President
States
Entering
Muslim
Muslims
Arbitrary
Total
Policy
Trump
Ban
Celebrated
Discrimination
Upholding
Formal
Who
Now
United
United States
Narratively speaking, innocent misunderstandings are disappointing. Arbitrary events are also disappointing. The stories that really grab our attention involve not accidents but people doing things on purpose - to get things they desperately want.
Celeste Ng
People
Events
Innocent
Accidents
Desperately
Our
Arbitrary
Purpose
Attention
Disappointing
Involve
Also
Misunderstandings
Doing
Grab
Get
Want
Stories
Really
Speaking
Things
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