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«Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.»
«Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, inconstant, legislative, Legislative power, prescribes, subject to, vest, vested, vests
«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.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, arrest, educational, efficacious, helpful, imposition, impositions, Movements, rigorously, spontaneous, tasks, tends, tends to, The Complete, unfolding
«All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Media
| Keywords:
arbitrary, artificial, invest, media, perceptions
«History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, befallen, befalls, calamities, deceivers, destroyers, foundering, founders, human origin, noted, origin, tenths, The Destroyers, The Founders, the union
«A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit. A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, denies, hesitate, internal, in its own right, other states, public opinion, reflected, suppression, suppressions
«Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
arbitrary, impressions, referred, referred to, sense impression, totality
«Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
abused, abuse of power, arbitrary, established, licentiousness, ruins
«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
actually, arbitrary, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, cruel, grasping, tolerable, unintelligent, worst
«He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life.»
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