The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. — Peter Kreeft 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
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The science of absolutism (vitaraag vignan) is so vast that if just one strand of hair's worth were to be revealed to” — Dada Bhagwan 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
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
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by… — Dallin H. Oaks 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
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead Copy Share Image
We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope,… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“The science of absolutism (vitaraag vignan) is such that it cannot be understood by anyone. Even it's manifestion within me has not… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of… — Daron Acemoğlu 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
We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.” — Heather Paxson 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
Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Emotionally drunk people stuck in absolutism decreases communication and understanding and creates polarization. . . a recipe for disaster” — David W Earle LPC 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 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
If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
