Absolutes Quote by Gertrude Himmelfarb Download Open image “absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.” — Gertrude Himmelfarb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutes Freedom Liberty
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just,… — John Winthrop Copy Share Image
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted. — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“...when President Clinton, on the anniversary of his election, spoke in the church in Tennessee where Martin Luther King, Jr., had delivered his last… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.” — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Postmodernism entices us with the siren call of liberation and creativity, but it may be an invitation to intellectual and moral suicide. — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
If you live in a material universe where acquiring things is very important to you, then family is an absolute deterrent to maintaining that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Their [the U.S.’s] defense budget in absolute figures is almost 25 times bigger than Russia’s. This is what in defense is referred to as… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done... What a… — Christy Nockels Copy Share Image
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
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