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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on...

Quote by Peter Fonda about parents, time

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

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about power, sensibility, destruction, truth, world

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about opinion

The signs are nothing else than arbitrary stakes through which we human try to define ourselves based on our Logical Coefficient 2 and thus identify the world we are in and that we form, as we neither knew this world, nor would it exist, because...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about logic, world, astrology, human imperfections, nothing