| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley |
| "My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning |
| "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "Power corrupts. absolute power is kind of neat." »John Lehman |
| "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 |
| "Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines." »Richard Buckminster Fuller |
| "It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason." »Lord Acton |
| "Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order." »Francis Bacon |
| "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." »Lord Acton |
| "The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional." »George Herbert Walker Bush |
| "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience." »George Santayana |
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