Best absolutes & demand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.”

Should Humans Long Opportunity Justice Demand Equal Absolutes Rewards Income Provision Vary Equal Opportunity

Author:Sayyid Qutb

“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.”

Differences Subjects Identity Position Demand Claims Relation Absolutes All Time Recognition Categories Identical Reciprocity Individuation

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.”

World Humans Demand Absolutes Driven Representatives Existential Nobility Bourgeois Truthfulness

Book:Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity

Source: Nietzsche: An Introduction to the Understanding of His Philosophical Activity

“The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.”

Literature Becoming Demand Absolutes Genre Purity Genre Is Anachronism

Book:Microworlds

Source: Microworlds

“As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back, you have not taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who and what you are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has a liberating effect on others.”

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“Doing a route at the absolute limit of the possible demands and encourages a coordination of all peripheral factors. It is, at the same time, a sign of joy and contentment with that moment, perhaps even a mirror of the equlibrium in your inner spirit, a mirror of a liberated state of mind.”

Mind States Moments Joy Spirit Demand Limits Absolutes Mirrors Factors Contentment That Moment State Of Mind Routes Liberated Coordination

Author:Wolfgang Gullich

“Love simply is - it asks no permissions. Acceptance is all love asks, the only demand it makes, but it is an absolute one. You can either admit it to your heart or refuse it, but there's no other option.”

Heart Asks Acceptance Demand Absolutes Refuse Permission

Author:Stephanie Laurens

“Had today's technophobic zealots [environmental activists] been in charge in previous centuries, we would have to roll human progress back to the Middle Ages - and beyond, since even fire, the wheel and organic farming pose risks, and none would have passed the "absolute safety" test the zealots demand. Putting them in charge now would mean an end to progress, and perpetual deprivation for inhabitants of developing nations.”

“I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.”

“Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster.”

Men Should Ends Can Do Special Bears Demand Absolutes Sticks Privilege Wounds Disaster Superiors Dirty Settling Traffic Tactics Women Equality Never Settle

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.”

World Ideas Planets Demand Eternal Absolutes Ancient Doctrine Pursue Peaceful Our World Nerves Arrogant Creeds Existential Inquiry Elimination Implicit Cohabitation

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Loving Your Enemies... Far from being the pious injunction of a utopian dreamer, this demand is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes it is love that will save our world and civilization; love even for our enemies.”

World Peace Enemy Civilization Demand Survival Absolutes Our World Dreamer Loving You Pious Utopian Loving Your Enemies

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth”

Ifs Inspirational Motivational Actors Difficult Acting Impossible Demand Happenings Absolutes Cameras Instruments Get Away Severe Penetrate Absolute Truth

Book:Elia Kazan: A Life

Source: Elia Kazan: A Life

“Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.”

People Stills Purpose Humanity Liberty Demand Absolutes Tyranny Sheep Inherent Humane Shepherds Benevolent Inhumanity Absolute Power Despots Power Corrupts

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty... absolute certainty.”

“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories like Chekhov wrote. That's why I rate that second - it's because it demands a nearer absolute exactitude. You have less room to be slovenly and careless. There's less room in it for trash.”

Mean Stories Next Rooms Novel Demand Absolutes Rate Crafts Short Story Trash Careless Chekhov Exactitude

Author:William Faulkner

“Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realization the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.”

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

Faith Simple Power Cutting Impossible Demand Absolutes Instruments Surrender Compromise Obedience Bias Similarity Readiness Knots Absolute Power Power Corrupts Dehumanization

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.”

Earth Friendship Compassion Accepting Kindness Fire Impossible Sky Cry Demand Eternal Absolutes Compromise Eternal Life After Death Springtime Friendship Love Life After Death

Author:Albert Camus

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