The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit…

“Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

— Albert Camus

There's a stronger and more kind of controversial element of Plotinus' view of matter, which is that he actually identifies it with evil, or…

— Peter Adamson

There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would…

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This…

— Jean Baudrillard

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

— Simon Blackburn

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts…

— T. E. Hulme

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in…

— Thomas Merton

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

— Wendy Kaminer

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

— James E. Faust

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the…

— Simon Blackburn

“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and, in a…

— Alfred Korzybski

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

— Robert Briffault

“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at…

— Christopher Hitchens

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson