Absolutes Quotes - Page 11

• I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

  Howard Zinn

  Evil, Violence, Degrees

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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• Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

  Milan Kundera

  Intelligent, Finding Yourself, Born

  "Farewell Waltz: A Novel". Book by Milan Kundera, 1976.

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• To be happy in absolute terms, along with our happiness, all the world must be happy so that we don't have to worry for anyone!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Worry, World

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• Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

  Perry Brass

  Kindness, Pleasure

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with
  "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Names, Worship

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• The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

  Oscar Romero

  Children, Desire, Selfishness

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• Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

  Paulo Coelho

  Decision, Doe, Freedom To Choose

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• Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Loyalty, Independent, Thinking

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Knowledge, Authority And Power

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  Alex Nunns

  Party, College, Mps

  Source: salvage.zone

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  George Santayana

  Love, Beauty, Wisdom

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.30, 谷月社

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• 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

  Country, Believe, Ideas

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. February 26, 2012.

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• May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

  May Sarton

  Fashion, What Matters, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

  John Ralston Saul

  Exception, Statements

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Baby, Talking

  Dean Koontz (2002). “Strangers”, p.209, Penguin

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• Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

  P. D. James

  Confusing, Identity, Senses

  P. D. James (1984). “Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels”, Scribner Book Company

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• You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

  Dan Millman

  Heart, Warrior, Cutting

  Dan Millman (2006). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.178, H J Kramer

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• New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there, the lepers, the thugs, and above all, the ennui, the monotony of faces, streets, legs, houses, skyscrapers, meals, posters, jobs, crimes, loves... A whole city erected over a hollow pit of nothingness. Meaningless. Absolute meaningless.

  Henry Miller

  Jobs, New York, Thug

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Levels, May, Matter

  Jacques Ellul (2011). “Anarchy and Christianity”, p.34, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Opportunity, Thinking

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• But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

  Cormac McCarthy

  Misery, Humans

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.448, Pan Macmillan

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• This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

  Jack London

  Expression, Surrender, Masters

  Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.176, Jack London

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• There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.

  Cassandra Clare

  Romantic, Love You, Forbidden Love

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Glass”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• [Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Evil, Stories

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

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