Home / Topics / Absolutes Quotes

Absolutes Quotes

Browse 2628 quotes about Absolutes.

Absolutes Quotes

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.”

Ifs Men Would Be Parent Race Watches Power Fate Childhood Minutes Objects Authority Absolutes Contrary Oppression Secure Perpetual Immense Manhood Gratification

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.”

Doe Reality Individual Stars Known Power Fate Absolutes Tricks Despite Mortality Creeps Helplessness Absolute Power

Book:Existential Psychotherapy

Source: Existential Psychotherapy

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.”

People Hands Government Choices Principles Democracy Fate Depends Authority Tradition Opposites Absolutes Restraint Sovereignty Absolute Power Legality

Author:Lord Acton

“No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.”

Nations Can Do Accepting Fate Absolutes Tyranny Alternatives

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”

Matter Results Fate Plans One Thing Absolutes Success In Life Coincidence Adequate Questionable

Book:Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.”

Thinking Decision Fate Absolutes Evening Compare Comparison

Book:Thousand Cranes

Source: Thousand Cranes

“Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.”

World Justice Clear Fate This World Absolutes Injustice

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.”

People Ifs Men Feelings Wanted Remember Belief Fate Imagine He Man Determination Absolutes Paint Shoulders Necks Concentration Disappointed Passive Papa Being Disappointed

Author:Susan Vreeland