Absolutes Quotes - Page 9

• [H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

  John Locke

  Men, Thinking, Blood

  John Locke (2015). “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”, p.82, Broadview Press

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• May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

  Abigail Adams

  Mind, May, Steps

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.199

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• If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

  Paul Johnson

  Differences, Evil, Pits

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• Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people, by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into the hands... and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and... provide for their own safety and security.

  John Locke

  Ambition, Hands, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Wish, Politics

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• My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.

  Andre Dubus

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Source: thekingsenglish.wordpress.com

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• You can't build a future if you do not know who you are. You can't become who you are meant to be if you can't tell the truth about who you are, what you have, and everything about your life. The truth is the absolute essence to your success, while lies are the absolute essence to your failures.

  Suze Orman

  Lying, Essence, Telling The Truth

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• I never intended to be a historian of religion. My aim was to become a professor of English Literature in a university, but I had a series of absolute career disasters and found myself making television programs about the nature of religion and about Christian history and started to discover about other religious traditions, and that was an absolute eye-opener for me.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Eye

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.

  Philip Kapleau

  Lying, Mind, Vision

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• This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Law, Rich, Manifest

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• We emphasize the transcendent worth of the human person. We insist that the human person must never be treated as an object; he must always be considered the subject. That is the basis for our teaching, the absolute standard.

  Pope John Paul II

  Teaching, Standards, Bases

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• The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Reality, Greatness

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ...absolute intolerance also provides long growth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Long, Growth, Intolerance

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

  Alexander Herzen

  War, Names, Ideas

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• Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external.

  Isaac Newton

  Flow, Relation, Mathematical

  Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Men, Giving

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• As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

  Benito Mussolini

  Attitude, Political, Doctrine

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• A scientific approach means knowing what one knows and what one doesn't. Absolute or complete knowledge is unscientific.

  Karl Jaspers

  Mean, Knowing, Approach

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• Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Champion, Titles, Relief

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• Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Acceptance, Demand

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• Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Heart, People

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.

  Gillian Roberts

  Thinking, Offering, House

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• If we are absolutely grounded in the absolute love of God that protects us from nothing even as it sustains us in all things, then we can face all things with courage and tenderness and touch the hurting places in others and in ourselves with love.

  James Finley

  Love, God, Hurt

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• I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

  M. Ageyev

  Dream, Men, Night

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