Absolute Quotes

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There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. — Leon Trotsky
When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories -… — David Walliams
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been… — Ida B. Wells
The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. — Paul Westerberg
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. — Alfred North Whitehead
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes… — Rowan Williams
I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell. — Brian Wilson
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. — Woodrow Wilson
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson
My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to… — Woodrow Wilson
What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense,… — Steven Wright
I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction,… — Julian Baggini
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know,… — Douglas Rushkoff
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. — Eric Hoffer
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an… — Eugene Ionesco
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin… — Graham Greene
If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it. — Albert Camus
Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one's awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one's personality) is not really… — Vladimir Nabokov
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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