Quotes of: Absolutism Keyword

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.

Nicholas Mosley

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

The definition of 'safe' is not strictly an engineering term; it's a societal term. Does it mean absolutely no loss of life? Does it mean absolutely no contamination with radiation? What exactly does 'safe' mean?

Henry Petroski

Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

Cameron Mackintosh

I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.

Maggie Stiefvater

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Kim Cattrall

The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.

David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.

Bhagavata Purana

And the only answer I know is That no child should give up on life. Math deals in absolutes. But life is the most absolute of all.

After the Death of Anna Gonzales

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace; and when you are in love with ‘what is,’ you experience bliss.

Nirvana: Absolute Freedom

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

The Sun Watches the Sun

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

\ Who can know the absolute truth of illusion or emptiness? That is why we feel the fulfilled sense of this world.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

Twyla Tharp

Faith in God means believing absolutely in something with no proof whatsoever. Faith in humanity means believing absolutely in something with a huge amount of proof to the contrary. We are the true believers.

Joss Whedon