Absolute Quotes - page 2

The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. (Ludwig Quidde)

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death.

Blaise Pascal

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Henry David Thoreau

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Piet Mondrian

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

Karel Čapek

I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.

Rick Santorum

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Paul Ricœur

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emil Cioran

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

Emil Cioran

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. (Charles de Gaulle)

As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."

Nikos Kazantzakis

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

Elizabeth Gaskell

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Lois McMaster Bujold

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.

Kate Chopin

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

Benito Mussolini

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

Murray Rothbard

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

Woodrow Wilson

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. (James A. Garfield)

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

James A. Garfield

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Isaac Asimov

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

Zig Ziglar

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

Previous
1
2 (Current)
3
4
Next