Best absolutes & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.”

Ifs Life Humans Seems Turns Results Effort Consciousness Minutes Findings Died Absolutes Committed Cures Miserable Mortality

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.”

“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”

Men Turns Power Absolutes Clay Despotism Absolute Power Despots Anti God

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.”

Needs Desire Turns Universe Absolutes Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Sonia

“Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.”

Men Turns Impossible Standards Hatred Absolutes Tolerance Nature Of Man Unchangeable

Book:Liberalism Ancient and Modern

Source: Liberalism Ancient and Modern

“Man is suddenly becoming aware that by an ill-considered exploitation of nature he risks destroying it and becoming in his turn the victim of this degradation. Not only is the material environment becoming a permanent menace - pollution and refuse, new illness and absolute destructive capacity - but the human framework is no longer under man's control, thus creating an environment for tomorrow which may well be intolerable. This is a wide-ranging social problem which concerns the entire human family.”

“When love of one's people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.”

People Humans Political Turns Causes Results Violence Racism Hatred Absolutes Supreme Tendencies Privileged Human Society Counterfeit Good Political Privileged Life

Book:Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

Source: Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.”

Reason Facts Action Turns Principles Solutions Absolutes Fixed Abstraction Insufficiency Adequacy Pragmatists

Author:William James

“Although Christ in my mind is an absolute yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. They're supposed to be representing Jesus, but they're not doing it very well. They're letting him down very badly, and that's a big turn off.”

Thinking Mind Wells Bigs Today Christian Turns Jesus Christ Teacher Absolutes Supposed To Be Representing Turn Off Yogi Christian Teachers

Author:George Harrison

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.”

Turns Passion Doubt Madness Absolutes Cease Certainty Jealousy

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Persons Self Helping Wisdom Order Turns Lost Knowing Self Love Taste Despair Absolutes Extremes Luxury Rotten

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.”

Stills Turns Fighting Winning Lost Left Struggle Victory Losing Absolutes Defeat Tides Win Or Lose Skulduggery Pleasant Victory And Defeat

Book:Skulduggery Pleasant -

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant -

“Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.”

“All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.”

Humans Long Turns Memories Greater Childhood Emotional Absolutes Lists Wounds Certainty Bags Significance Resentment Packs Rats Absolute Certainty

Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!”

Ifs Firsts Order Turns Angel Absolutes Pope Cannons

Author:Libba Bray

“Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.”

Thinking Way Believe Persons Different Self Truth Turns Human Nature Absolutes Regard Fellows Threat Monsters Way Of Thinking Degrade Absolute Truth

Author:Octavio Paz

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