Absolute Quotes

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. (Hunter S. Thompson)
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely. View quote
John W. Campbell
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. View quote
Eric Hoffer
For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. View quote
George Eliot
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream... (Gustave Moreau)
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. View quote
John C. Calhoun
The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world. View quote
Arthur Eddington
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. View quote
Iris Murdoch
As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. View quote
Colette
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. View quote
John Lehman
One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you. View quote
Abraham Pais
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. (Bertrand Russell)
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. View quote
Henry Adams
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Push your limit to the absolute extreme. View quote
Gordon Ramsay