Absolutes Quotes - Page 29

• Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

  Adrienne Rich

  War, Imagination, Confusion

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

  Herbert Spencer

  Pain, Regulation, Way

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'Prison Ethics'

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• A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Useless, Honest

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.297, Algora Publishing

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• The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

  William Blackstone

  Rights, Sacred, Englishmen

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Believe, Thinking

  1776 The Crisis, introduction, Dec.

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• Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Passion, Independent

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

  Thomas Paine

  Country, People, Matter

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.81, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

  Michel Foucault

  Time, Art, Madness

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.273, Psychology Press

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• There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Faith, Cutting, Power

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

  Harold Pinter

  Birthday, Party, Play

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• Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Math, Science

  "The Puzzle Instinct : The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life‎". Book by Marcel Danesi (p. 71), 2004.

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• The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.

  Jane Fonda

  Exercise, Work Out, Three

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• There exists a mountain of circumstantial evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. This is the kind of evidence that would stand up in a court of law. Some people believe that science needs better tools to quantify what consciousness is. Perhaps when we discover what consciousness is we will be on the road to providing absolute scientific evidence that there is life after death.

  Jean Ritchie

  Believe, Law, People

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• I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Animal, Scum Of The Earth

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• On 18th September 2014, between the hours of 7am and 10pm, absolute sovereign power will lie in the hands of the Scottish people. They have to decide whether to keep it, or give it away to where their minority status makes them permanently powerless and vulnerable.

  Jim Sillars

  Lying, Hands, People

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• Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Myth, Absolute Truth, Approach

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.273, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Doing the right thing at all costs is an absolute, and only a sith deals in absolutes.

  Dave Filoni

  Cost, Sith, Deals

  "E-Mails Between Master & Padawan About Ahsoka’s Decision". Interview with Ashley Eckstein, www.starwars.com. March 6, 2013.

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• It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.

  Cory Monteith

  Perseverance, Get Back

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• This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Dark, Acting, Nails

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• I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.

  Billie Jean King

  Art, Moving, Player

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Aug 09, 2010

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• I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

  Hume Cronyn

  Play, Mind, Want

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• People say I'm a nice girl saying terrible things. I tend to say the opposite of what I think. You hope that the absolute power of that transcends, and reaches the audience.

  Sarah Silverman

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

  "Quiet Depravity" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

  David Foster

  Art, Want Something, Genuine Smiles

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• I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wall, Thinking, Office

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