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The unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
— Helen McCloy
Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules.
— Alexandra Robbins
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 it less arbitrary.
— Francoise Sagan
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
— J. Philippe Rushton
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
— Kary Mullis
The essential prerequisite for an acceptable exit strategy is a sustainable outcome, not an arbitrary time limit.
— Richard Caplan
Why should the arbitrary assignment of genital parts determine whether or not you want to be with a person?
— David Levithan
Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.
— Elizabeth Blackburn
Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age ...
— Jonathan Swift
It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary. — Friedrich August Von Hayek
Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule
— Donald A. Norman
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
— Roger L'Estrange
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
— Stephen Kinzer
Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
— Abbie Hoffman
In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power.
— Victor Klemperer
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
— George Washington
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
— John Tillotson
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
Fate was faceless, life arbitrary, a tale told by an idiot.
— Emma Donoghue
As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can't be just, be arbitrary
— William S. Burroughs
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
— Algernon Sidney
Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.
— Felicity Jones
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[...] and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty - they will prove that they have less mind than man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
— Francine Pascal
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
— Marshall McLuhan
A belief is an absolute but arbitrary mental stance.
— Will Bowen
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
— Wassily Leontief
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
— Rudy Rucker
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
— Edmund Burke
It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit.""It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis. — David Levithan
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 seldom explicit.
— Wyndham Lewis
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.
— Herman Melville
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
— Joseph Campbell
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
— Robert Breault
It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
— Julien Offray De La Mettrie
The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you - if only temporarily.
— Matthew Quick
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
— Abigail Adams
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
— Frank Darabont
The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.
— Annie Besant
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[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
— Liz Curtis Higgs
I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.
— George R R Martin
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
— Mortimer Adler
Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.
— Terry Teachout
nothing is arbitrary in this whole world, there is a good reason behind each and everything....
— Nikhil Kumar
The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!
— John Quincy Adams
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
The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd
— Greg Egan
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
— Douglas Kennedy
in the absence of a biblical morality a new elite will always come forward to dictate arbitrary absolutes to society
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
— James R. Schlesinger
He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.
— Khaled Hosseini
There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
— Guy Deutscher
Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.
— Frank Bruni
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Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state.
— Tibor R. Machan
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
— David Hume
No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.
— Andy Rooney
How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!
— Mark Twain
Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
— Alexandre Dumas
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
— Andre Breton
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
— Lysander Spooner
Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king
— Francis A. Schaeffer
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
— Alexander Hamilton
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.
— George Meyer
A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.
— Bernard Bloch
To choose one type of music at the exclusion of another would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
— Moby
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
— Ludwig Von Mises
