Quotes of: Absolutism Keyword

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Frank Herbert

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Harry Shearer

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Alan Rickman

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Robert Black

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

George Deacon

There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of any supposed theory or observation. It should carefully weigh the chances of truth and error and...

Life

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Ray Knight

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Max Weber

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

David Brinkley

Everyone absolutely knows what a strawberry tastes like, even if you are allergic to them. Everyone absolutely knows what the toilet flushing sounds like. Everyone absolutely scratches their mosquito bites. And I know that I was absolutely ready to d...

Love

The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

Lou Doillon

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Albert Camus

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Love

[God is] the One who in absolute freedom loves absolutely.

Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed: Black Holes, Love, and a Journey in and Out of Calvinism

Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.

Cosmopolitan Greetings

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

The reason many are loathe to acknowledge the possibility of absolute truth is not simply because they do not wish to accept the possibility of the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing deity. It is because they do not want to accept the conseque...

Why It Doesn't Matter What You Believe If It's Not True: Is There Absolute Truth?

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing