Arbitrary Power Quotes. QuotesGram

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

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.

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

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

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

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

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

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

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.

Arbitrary Power Quotes

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