“My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.” WayLongKidsTogetherParentForeverAbsolutesSecureLong WayTogether Forever Author:Ayelet Waldman
“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.” IfsMenWould BeParentRaceWatchesPowerFateChildhoodMinutesObjectsAuthorityAbsolutesContraryOppressionSecurePerpetualImmenseManhoodGratification Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation. Commerce, therefore, in my opinion, is apt to decay in absolute governments, not because it is there less secure, but because it is less honourable.” WayRealGovernmentPassionOpinionDangerIndustryDifficultyAbsolutesScaredSecureImaginaryDecayCommerceCalculationsAvariceSpursObstinate Author:David Hume
“I cannot guarantee people absolute fairness. I can only promise that I will do everything in my power to secure fairness or create a greater degree of fairness.” PeopleI CanGreaterPromiseDegreesAbsolutesSecureGuaranteesFairness Author:Martin Schulz
“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.” NeedsGivingFirstsMayStatesOrderFoundSocialJusticeUnitedLibertyUnited StatesKnowingObjectsAbsolutesPraiseLibertarianSecureAbstractExpensesSensibleFrameworkSocial OrderTrue FreedomLiberty And JusticePrimacyIndefinable Book:Redeeming the Time Source: Redeeming the Time
“Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.” SelfRealityUniverseHumilityOppositesBiggerAbsolutesHumbleSecureComparisonBe HumbleExaltationAbasement Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure them from injury. It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things.” PersonsIdeasLawLibertyRightsEconomicConscienceEconomicsAbsolutesPropertyMissionsSecureEnjoymentInjurySentimentsInterfereLegislatorsAbsolute Power Book:The Law Source: The Law
“Meaning can only be understood in relation to its environment. Therefore, the words only make full sense in context... There are no absolutes, there is no meaning without relationships, everything is not only interacting but interdependent. The kahunas use this idea to help give a person a powerfully secure sense of significance, while at the same time teaching him that to heal himself is to heal the world, and to heal the world is to heal himself. This is not a loss of individuality, but an understanding that individuality itself is a relationship with the environment.” WorldGivingPersonsIdeasHelpingUseSpiritualUnderstandingLossEnvironmentTeachingUnderstoodRelationAbsolutesIndividualityHealSecureSignificanceInteractingHeal The World Author:Serge King
“I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.” ThinkingShouldPiecesBenefitsBasesAbsolutesInvestmentSecureRetirementBrokersStock Broker Author:Barbara Boxer