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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.


Larry Wall


#arbitrary power #basic #different #different kinds #different people

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you.


Ai Weiwei


#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.


Jacques Lacan


#arbitrary #aside #believe #conception #even

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.


Margaret Mead


#arbitrary #contrasting #culture #diverse #each

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


Frederick Law Olmsted


#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

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


John Rawls


#arbitrary power #bad #bad man #desires #evil

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.


David Ricardo


#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

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


#characters #feels #less #life #life is a

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


Arthur Schopenhauer


#arbitrary #chance #inflicted #nature #never

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.


Algernon Sidney


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