Arbitrary Quotes

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a ‘total government.’ In short, we’ve got totalitarian government.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

So the time line of when we consider a fetus 'human' is arbitrary after conception.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

There is something so arbitrary about prizes.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.