Absolutes Quotes · Page 5

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

— E. Lynn Harris

I don't really think in absolutes.

— Will Ferrell

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

— Henry Adams

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

— Jane Austen

The Absolute is the material of both God and man.

— Swami Vivekananda

Absolute power demoralizes.

— Lord Acton

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

— D. H. Lawrence

Absolutes are absolutely dangerous.

— James Tiptree Jr

The spirit of the gospel is in absolute disagreement with the spirit of the world.

— F.B. Meyer

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

— Randall Dale Adams

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

— Lewis M. Branscomb

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades.

— Sylvester Stallone

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

— Samuel Butler

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

— Joe Biden

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I…

— George Harrison

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail…

— Paula Fox

I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the…

— Eve Ensler

I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst.…

— Donald Trump

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

— William O. Douglas

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

— Leon Festinger

I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,…

— James Luther Adams

Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is…

— Peter Drucker

“The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction…

— Don Berry

This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we…

— William James

Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly…

— R.J. Rushdoony

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In…

— Emma Goldman

Speaking of failure, when we do our question and answer period, you look at what's happened with our Navy in terms of…

— Donald Trump

Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…

— Douglas Hofstadter

While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine…

— Ravi Zacharias

This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for…

— Donald Trump

The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some…

— Sivananda

Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we…

— William Stanley Jevons

The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value"…

— Robert M. Pirsig

The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show…

— Ted Koppel