Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle… — Dennis Hopper Copy Share Image
Working with people who cause your stomach to churn seems much like marrying for money - probably a bad idea under any… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable, and absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“After years of seeing the world in absolutes, he has taught me how to pick out all the shades of possibilities.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor;… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on… — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it… — Steven Conrad Copy Share Image
There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely… — Craig Finn Copy Share Image
The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image