arbitrariness

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being arbitrary; despoticalness; tyranny.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. Eric Hoffer

I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Robert Venturi

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man. African Spir

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general. Christian Morgenstern

Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness. Pierre Bourdieu

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