Quotes of: Arbitrary Keyword

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

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

John Rawls

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

John McWhorter

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

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

Peter Weir

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

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

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

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