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Quotes About Absolute

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
~ Andre Breton
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
~ Rafael Correa
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
~ Lysander Spooner
You can't be partially pregnant.
~ Robert J. Bentley
Legend is a term bandied about too much in football, but in Premier League terms Sergio Aguero is an absolute legend.
~ Paul Merson
I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.
~ Bill Keller
It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.
~ Jon Corzine
What is discontinuous in Hegel's text is not just the text itself, but the whole of human history, for it is Hegel who sees, or begins to see, that it is the process of thought that is everything; its results are only part of the process, and the final result—"the Absolute"—is an illusion.
~ Robert C. Solomon
It was the relative, not absolute, size of the surprise that mattered over a tenfold range of reward.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
What Wilkinson and others have shown is that poverty is not only a predictor of poor health but, independent of absolute income, so is poverty amid plenty—the more income inequality there is in a society, the worse the health and mortality rates.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
I realized then the truth about all love: that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all. The other feelings, compassion, tenderness and so on, exist only on the periphery and belong on the constructions of society and habit. But she herself- austere and merciless Aphrodite-is a pagan. it is not our brains or instincts which she picks-but our very bones.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science.
~ Max Planck
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
~ Eric Temple Bell
If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
~ Francis Schaeffer
Estás eterna, incontestable e irrefutablemente completo.
~ Alan Cohen
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips without looking back.
~ Alan Lightman
Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
~ Alan Moore
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.
~ Alan Moore
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
~ Alan Moore
Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not hear the people's voice for generations Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
~ Alan Moore
Does anyone really believe that a pattern of exploitation old as our civilization can be halted legislatively, judicially, or through any means other than an absolute rejection of the mindset that engineers the exploitation in the first place, followed by actions based on that rejection? This means if we want to stop the destruction, we have to root out the mindset.
~ Derrick Jensen
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.
~ Yves Klein
Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything
~ Catherine Marshall