Arbitrary Quotes

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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