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.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
A jurisdiction thus vague and arbitrary was exposed to the most dangerous abuse: the substance, as well as the form, of justice were often sacrificed to the prejudices of virtue, the bias of laudable affection, and the grosser seductions of interest or resentment.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.
In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.
Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.
They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.
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.
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks
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.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
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