Best absolutes & modern Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.”

Men World May Mean Use Individual Liberty Modern Weapons Absolutes Slavery Possession Liberation Perceive Mastery Modern World Deprivation Bereft

Book:A History of Warfare

Source: A History of Warfare

“We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because they don't have the same political base that we do.”

Humans Political Sound Can Do Animal Modern Limits Tests Absolutes Modern Life Blast

Author:John Baird

“Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.”

Ifs Wells Made Beautiful Modern Absolutes Obvious Makers Soap Modern Life Advertisements

Book:Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty

Source: Aubrey Beardsley: a slave to beauty

“My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.”

“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Doe Enough Bigs Speak Language Perfect Numbers Mystery Modern Prove Absolutes Infinite Mathematics Remains Series Size Infinity

Author:Sara Maitland

“Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.”

Modern Honest Honesty Mark Absolutes

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The only difference between causation and the value is that the word "cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed. Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.”

“What we've done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It's not even real any more. You used to be able to give a kid an apple and they would love it. Kids can't even taste apples any more. Apples taste like paper to kids now.”

Giving Real Done Kids Able Used Modern Taste Paper Absolutes Used To Be Insanity Apples Food Supply

Author:Louis C. K.

“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.”

“The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It is a sacred cow within a sacred cow, and it is just about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought.”

Humans Light Science Modern Criticism Absolutes Sacred Extraordinary Physics Cows Velocity Human Thought Modern Physics Sacred Cows

Author:Anthony Standen

“In part I'm just mystified. Here's a woman, Hillary [Clinton], who wrote a book about it takes a "village" to raise children. It wasn't about a book about "it takes a pill." There's a "double think" that the modern person often has. Anything that's called "science" is accepted as an absolute and sweeps reason away.”

Thinking Children Persons Book Reason Modern Absolutes Raises Clinton Accepted Village Pills It Takes A Village It Takes A Village To Raise A Child Village To Raise A Child

Author:Peter Breggin

“In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.”

People Kind Stories Culture Can Do Modern Fashion Horse Absolutes Posts Declaration Absolute Truth Platitudes Modern Culture Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Max Lucado

“My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.”

Technology Worry Modern Absolutes Corners Village Modern Technology Global Village

Author:Denis Leary

“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.”

Needs Feelings Age Wanted Three Left Powerful Modern Middle Greatness Tragedy Absolutes Saint Purity Most Powerful Heroism Craving Middle Ages Modern Life

Author:Anais Nin

“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”

Character Values Social Knowledge Impossible Modern Subjects Position Theory Accounts Absolutes Historical Assumption Relative Spheres Absolute Truth Theory Of Knowledge Historical Knowledge

Author:Karl Mannheim

“The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.”

Men Matter Lost Moral Principles Modern Economics Absolutes Majority Modern Man Moral Principles

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”

Pain Modern Absolutes Paint Painter Doomed Portraits Oblivion

Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

“This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.”

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