Quotes with absolute

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  • Marlon Brando Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
    Marlon Brando
    American actor, film director, and activist (1924 - 2004)
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  • Martin Luther King Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Lawrence Durrell The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
    Eupsychian Management : A Journal (1965) p. 212
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Max Lerner The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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  • Benito Mussolini The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bill Bradley The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Eddington The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Joan Didion The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 57
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Charles Lamb The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Albert Pike The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Ben Elliot There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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