#arbitrary

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

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

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. ↗

— Frank Darabont

#artificial #factor #film #length #me

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#arbitrary #clinical #distinctions #illegal #legal

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

— Emily Greene Balch

#also #arbitrary #desire #domestic #felt

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind. ↗

— Ted Nelson

#any #arbitrary #computers #deal #information