Absolutes Quotes

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

— Pope Francis

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

— Mavis Staples

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

— John Ruskin

Eternity is the Absolute present.

— D.T. Suzuki

Women should have absolute access to capital.

— Donald Trump

If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

— Cheryl Richardson

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

— Alan Arkin

Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?

— Edwina Currie

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

— John Calvin

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

— Bruce Lee

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

— Albert Camus

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

— Michel de Montaigne

I didn't set out to beat the world; I just set out to do my absolute best.

— Shaun White

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

— Alan Hansen

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

— Kathy Whitworth

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate…

— Anonymous

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

— William Blackstone

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before…

— Emile M. Cioran

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes…

— Lord Acton

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it…

— Alan Dershowitz

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

— George Santayana

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of…

— Thomas a Kempis

Whatever you choose you will repent because the other will remain and haunt you. If one needs absolute freedom then choiceless awareness…

— Rajneesh

Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything…

— Mengistu Haile Mariam

Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming…

— Taner Edis

Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American…

— Gabriel Kolko

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . .…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common…

— Isaac Newton

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute…

— Philip K. Howard

If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that…

— Francis Schaeffer

Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to…

— David D. Burns

Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the…

— Steve Sailer

Sarcastic Science, she would like to know, In her complacent ministry of fear, How we propose to get away from here When…

— Robert Frost

It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man, and…

— Philip Roth

I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that…

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which…

— Frank Herbert

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a…

— Thomas Merton

There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before…

— Kenny Smith

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— St. George Tucker