“Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.” ThinkingIdeasWarFightingMiddleTruth IsAbsolutesNobleRelativeVacuumsAbsolutism Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?” WellsDoeCharacterAmericaIndividualBlackTermCommunityResultsExistenceClassEconomicMiddleEffectsCenturyAbsolutesAdversitySlaveDiscriminationMiddle ClassProsperousLingeringRacial Discrimination Author:David Horowitz
“Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.” DoeSeemsSidesTroubleMiddleAbsolutesTownsPieCherriesHomemadeCherry Pie Book:On call: political essays Source: On call: political essays
“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.” MenWayWholeDreamNightRealizingSilenceMiddleSolitudeMen And WomenAbsolutesTerrifiedMiddle Of The NightGrown Man Author:M. Ageyev
“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.” HumansMeanEndsAgeTodayNationsFireProgressRiskMiddleCenturyDemandTestsAbsolutesSafetyEnvironmentalDevelopingWheelsActivistPerpetualFarmingMiddle AgesDeprivationHuman ProgressZealotOrganic Farming Author:Paul Driessen
“Wouldn't it be useful to explain the factors that actually allowed this to happen [Donald's Trump Presidency]. Like, for example, their frustration of the absolute shrinking of the middle class, the heroin epidemic, things like that. I don't see any of that.” HappensClassMiddleExampleTrumpAbsolutesFactorsFrustrationMiddle ClassPresidencyEpidemicsHeroinShrinking Author:Tucker Carlson
“The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated the potential of a nation that has lived under an iron handed blockade and permanent aggression including state sponsored terrorism and yet has survived. In the new circumstances we have the absolute conviction that we will move forward even more than we already have.” PeopleStatesAmericaMovingNationsMiddleCenturyPositionCircumstancesAbsolutesIncludingInternationalConvictionTerrorismMoving ForwardPermanentIronAggressionDefeatedSolidaritySurvived21st CenturyCubanBlockades Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“We three belong to the Middle Ages. We have this need of heroism, and there is no place for such feelings in modern life. That is our tragedy. Once I wanted to be a saint. It seemed the only absolute act left to do, for what is most powerful in me is the craving for purity, greatness.” NeedsFeelingsAgeWantedThreeLeftPowerfulModernMiddleGreatnessTragedyAbsolutesSaintPurityMost PowerfulHeroismCravingMiddle AgesModern Life Author:Anais Nin
“It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.” DifficultMiddleAbsolutesHindsight Book:Before I Go To Sleep Source: Before I Go To Sleep
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.” IfsKnowsHumansHeartStatesMomentsMightAgeHeavenSawsGraceMiddleConditionsYouthOughtBecomingLuckyIllusionDecidedAbsolutesExtremesAccessNostalgiaFamiliarMaturityContemptEmbarrassedMiddle AgesDisbeliefAmusedStoners Author:John Edward Williams
“Meanwhile, their [evolutionists] unproven theories will continue to be accepted by the learned and the illiterate alike as absolute truth, and will be defended with a frantic intolerance that has a parallel only in the bigotry of the darkest Middle Ages. If one does not accept evolution as an infallible dogma, implicitly and without question, one is regarded as an unenlightened ignoramus or is merely ignored as an obscurantist or a naive, uncritical fundamentalist.” IfsDoeAgeAcceptingMiddleTheoryEvolutionAbsolutesAcceptedBigotryIntoleranceDogmaIgnoredNaiveParallelsMiddle AgesFundamentalistInfallibleIlliterateAbsolute TruthFrantic Author:Alfred M. Rehwinkel