Quotes by Arbitrary 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 arbitrary use law Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe arbitrary chance religious Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. John Sterling superstitions arbitrary hands Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway. John Stossel arbitrary government want 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 wickedness arbitrary vices It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. Jorge Luis Borges arbitrary simple knowledge Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life. Jonathan Swift anarchy savages arbitrary There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy. Joseph Campbell arbitrary old-testament mercy But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting. Julian Coolidge thanks arbitrary interesting 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 rewards arbitrary vices My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power. Junot Diaz arbitrary league father Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture. Karl Friedrich Schinkel arbitrary historical past Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. Kary Mullis arbitrary fashion art True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel arbitrary destiny miracle And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost. Kate Chopin arbitrary moral cost The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. Ken Wilber shifting truth-is arbitrary Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange arbitrary design long 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 arbitrary annoyed ignorance I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager. Larry Wall arbitrary want trying I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us. Laura Mullen protection arbitrary safety «123456789»
