No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony. — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Here is a most significant fact-the subconscious mind takes any orders given it in a spirit of absolute FAITH, and acts upon… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion,… — Hakuun Yasutani Copy Share Image
The moral absolutes rest upon God's character. The moral commands He has given to men are an expression of His character. Men… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
If you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old with little education, as is often the case, and you're put in charge of many,… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an… — George Osborne 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
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder.… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
...all phenomena are correlated in one absolute and necessary law, from which they can all be deduced. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image
The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
It's an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit. — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We want to see the universe in its absolute, pure, naked, perfection. We want to know its wonder. We want to know… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death. — Joe DiMaggio Copy Share Image
For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image