Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

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.

Science is not a game in which arbitrary rules are used to decide what explanations are to be permitted.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard very liable to be broken.

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

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

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness public criticism of each other and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

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

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner but that they reflect a certain underlying order which may or may not be divinely inspired.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

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.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him and know his worries his hopes and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

You hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent God the all-great God the Almighty God the most powerful God the giver of life God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.

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

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

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.