Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
