| "The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau |
| "absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer |
| "alcohol is like a batsman, it takes time to set in, but is a delight afterwards" »Siddharth Astir |
| "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." »Hunter S. Thompson |
| "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the surest poison is time." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it-not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it." »Nancy Davis Reagan |
| "There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart |
| "There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero |
| "My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning |
| "Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley |
| "No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. alcohol is king" »Eliza Mother Stewart |
| "alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers." »James F. Byrnes |
| "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." »Thomas Huxley |
| "Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen |
| "I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass" »Lewis Mumford |
| "The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom." »Erich Fromm |
| "Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries." »Jean Iris Murdoch |
| "War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Power corrupts. absolute power is kind of neat." »John Lehman |
| "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness." »Norman O. Brown |
| "From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman |
| "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." »George Santayana |
| "All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden |
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