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“Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.”

Way Real Government Passion Opinion Danger Industry Difficulty Absolutes Scared Secure Imaginary Decay Commerce Calculations Avarice Spurs Obstinate

Author:David Hume

“What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.”

Long Problem Used Religious Numbers Lord Atheism Danger Concern Absolutes Threat Positive Atheism Access Phrases Dogma Fanaticism Alarms Large Numbers Militant Infidel

Author:Anthony Storr

“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.”

Choices Danger Fit Drug Weight Absolutes Alcohol Invisible Fats Poetic Unthinkable Unattractive Misfits Undisciplined Uncool Nadir Being Fat

Author:Claudia Shear

“The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria , and a danger for Iran at this point.”

People Knows Should Real Evil Crazy Danger Absolutes Pushing Iran Syria Zionism

Author:David Duke

“It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.”

Ifs Littles Care Pleasure Liberty Path Danger Masters Protect Authority Concern Absolutes Profit Tranquility Vigilant Avert

Book:American Institutions

Source: American Institutions

“Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.”

Ifs May Inspiration Danger Serious Stress Absolutes Lays Errors Command Variety Fallen Mixing Purification Impurity

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.”

Ifs Thinking Should Government Goal Moral Path Achieve Danger Gains Absolutes Climate Nuclear Preserves California Enlightened Progressive Warfare Imperatives Reins Secession

Author:David Swanson

“I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.”

Literature Effects Danger Absolutes Terror Abhorrence

Book:Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories

“What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?”

Ifs Thinking Needs Doe Eye Dies Sleep Pleasure Race Existence Liberty Path Danger Masters Degrees Authority Absolutes Remove Smallest Vitality Thorns Tranquil Languish

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Made Stills Would Be Fun Enemy Danger Comfort Goodness Absolutes Safety Meetings Terror Supreme Allies Wrong Way Great Safety

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.”

Ideas Self Sacrifice Danger Example Acceptance Absolutes Elevating Sacrificing Everything

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.”

Should Art School Danger Taste Absolutes Admire

Book:The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde