Absolutism Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into…
— Robert D. Brinsmead
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As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to…
— Ralph Raico
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In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled…
— Nigel Lawson
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It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to…
— Richard Hofstadter
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As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.
— Wendy Kaminer
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The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may…
— Ayn Rand
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For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling…
— Barack Obama
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Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
— Robert Briffault
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We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
— Lajos Kossuth
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There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in the earthly future…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its…
— Emma Goldman
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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such…
— Christopher Hitchens
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.
— Jon Krakauer
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There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge
— Cassandra Clare
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Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the…
— Thomas Merton
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
— D. A. Carson
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Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
— Thomas Cochrane
Who Wrote These Absolutism Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 22 Absolutism Quotes as follows: