Absolute Quotes

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Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely. — Rudolph Rummel
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. — John Boyd Orr
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of… — Lord Acton
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of… — Lord Acton
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by… — Lord Acton
The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism. — Lord Acton
Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute… — Richard P. Feynman
From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the… — Dalai Lama
It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in… — Stanley Fish
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It… — Stephen Charnock
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I… — Guillermo del Toro
When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the… — Gabriel Kolko
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not â€˜live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and… — Charles Simeon
A lot of people want to have market share numbers, lots of users, because that's how they view their self worth. For me, one of… — Linus Torvalds
This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states we both become one… — William James
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask… — Henry Bessemer

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