“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.” PeopleBelieveLongSelfSeemsForceLosesAcceptingIssuesAtheismWillingAbsolutesMagazinesCriticizeAlmightySupporterDarwinismBiologistTubsRottweilers Author:Steve Sailer
“So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.” ThinkingKnowsSelfCultureLevelsEconomyIssuesSelf ImprovementAbsolutesInnovationImprovementFantasticOutput Author:Steve Ballmer
“Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?” IfsWellsSelfGovernmentNaturalDemocracyIssuesAtheismPositionSourceCitizensSpeechUniversalAbsolutesArguingPracticalsRulersFree SpeechBoundlessSuffrageSelf-governmentUniversal Suffrage Author:Max Lerner
“Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is about "the right to life"...It is about the environment. It is about gaining equality for groups alleged to be oppressed...None of these issues is economic. All are fundamentally moral.” ValuesMoralIssuesEnvironmentGroupsEconomicAbsolutesOppressedRight To Life Author:Peter Drucker
“The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong - and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate.” IfsShouldUseForceSidesMoralIssuesMoralityAbsolutesDiscussionAppropriateConsiderationDisputesInitiateIfs AndPhysical Force Author:Ayn Rand
“Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.” PeopleYearsMayChildrenDoeSelfYoungIssuesMouthsAbsolutesBitterPrizeSelf ControlLiteralYoung ChildrenAbsolute TruthVeracityWatchfulnessBitter Experience Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.” GivingKindPersonsLongCountrySometimesHardProblemSufferingTermPoorIssuesRichAmountEasierApproachAbsolutesDepthAidsHopefullyLong TermHard TimesGreenhousesPoor CountriesRich CountriesForeign Aid Author:Bill Gates
“I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like [Barack] Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.” ThinkingReasonCoursesLeftReligiousSilencePrinciplesIssuesTakenOfficeAbsolutesBarack Author:Nat Hentoff
“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.” IfsThinkingIdeasStatesDoneGovernmentHappensUnitedMoralUnited StatesIssuesEnvironmentPiecesMilitaryDemandCreatingAbsolutesLifestyleControlledTerritoryPersonal LifePreferenceIdentificationResidentsPositive Change Author:David Swanson
“We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.” IfsWantShouldFacesIssuesEffectsLaborShould HaveAbsolutesUnionsWorkersBordersGuestsDepressingWagesCheap Labor Author:Mark Helprin
“I've had to play characters who I absolutely disagree with, as far as their politics, as far as their religion, and their stance on certain social issues, I completely disagree with them. But I have to go in and find who they are and get to their core, into their truth, and have absolute faith and believe in that, in order to portray it. So you have to walk in a lot of different shoes, in that you can't help but have your mind open as a result of that.” MindBelieveDifferentPlayCharacterHelpingCertainOrderSocialWalksResultsIssuesAbsolutesShoesCoreDisagreeSocial IssuesStance Author:Audra McDonald
“What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.” IfsWorldWayMayMeanFeelingsHandsEvilBeliefWishSinResponsibilityMoralWorryIssuesComfortEternalTreatsAbsolutesBelieverSavingOutcomesHolidayFiniteWagsAnon Author:William James
“There are two laws that we had better take to be absolute. The first is that as we cannot exempt ourselves from living in this world, then if we wish to live, we cannot exempt ourselves from using the world. If we cannot exempt ourselves from use, then we must deal with the issues raised by use. And so the second law is that if we want to continue living, we cannot exempt use from care.” IfsWorldWantFirstsTwoUseCareLawWishInspiringDealsIssuesThis WorldAbsolutesRaised Author:Wendell Berry
“By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations ... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of human survival. One world government is inevitable.” WorldFirstsHumansEndsGovernmentNationsIssuesAuthoritySurvivalAbsolutesHistoricalDecadesInevitableNew WorldNew World OrderWorld OrderWorld GovernmentNwoOne World Government Author:Pope John Paul II