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Absolute Quotes by Graham Greene
- Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
- 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…
- From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next…
- Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of…
- 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…
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he… — Dave Barry
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,… — Simone de Beauvoir
- 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
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno