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Absolute Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
- Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto…
- Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's…
- Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter.…
- A rising mass movement attracts and holds a following not by its doctrine and promises but by the refuge it offers from the anxieties, barrenness…
- The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
- Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is…
- Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies…
- Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It [sin] cannot occur at any time nor in any form without his permission. While he does not actively originate it, he… — James Petigru Boyce
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is… — Henry David Thoreau
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully… — Charles Darwin
- I have absolute faith that anything can come to one who trusts to the unlimited help of the Universal Intelligence that is… — Walter Russell
- Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. — Hassan Nasrallah