Quotes of: Arbitrary-power Keyword

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Gwyneth Paltrow

It is an old and wise caution, that when our neighbor's house is on fire, we ought to take care of our own. For tho', blessed be God, I live in a government where liberty is well understood, and freely enjoy'd; yet experience has shown us all that ba...

Andrew Hamilton

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Rahul Gandhi

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Martha Beck

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.

John McWhorter

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

Peter Weir

The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent ack...

Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power

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

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

J. Philippe Rushton

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

William Hurt

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

Ichiro Suzuki

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.

Marshall McLuhan

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.

Tessa Thompson

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

Lex Rex has become Rex Lex. Arbitrary judgment concerning current sociological good is king

Francis A. Schaeffer

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Emily Greene Balch

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Paul Auster