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“Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.”

Thinking Trying Mean Ideas Opinion Knowledge Duty Absolutes Constant Suits Grain Self Knowledge Egotism Freeze Unkind Flux

Author:Karen Armstrong

“God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.”

Firsts Atheism Duty Thirds Absolutes Positive Atheism Immortality Unbelievable

Author:George Eliot

“The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.”

People Want Women Duty Absolutes Devotion Severe Clergy Devotion To Duty

Author:Madame de Stael

“Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic duties to society and who are compromised by our intellectually dubious commitment to virtue, which can be defined by the perpetual smear-word of French polemic: the bourgeois. (Bourgeois equals humanist.) This word has long been anathema in France where categories are part of the ruling notion of logique. The word cannot be readily matched in England or America.”

“Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.”

Men Effort Healing Duty Highest Absolutes Method Faith In God Instantaneous

Book:Self-realization

Source: Self-realization

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Humans Facts Law Belief Race Moral Effects Example Duty Development Periods Evidence Absolutes Favors Human Race Dogmatic Moral Law Cannibalism Contending Good Moral

Author:Bertrand Russell

“For if animals are God's creatures, we have no absolute rights over them, only the duty to look after them as God would look after them. To stand with Jesus is to reject our view of ourselves as gods and lords of creation. We are to honor life for the sake of the Lord of life.”

Ifs Looks Jesus Animal Views Lord Rights Creation Duty Honor Creatures Absolutes Sake Rejects

Book:Animal Gospel

Source: Animal Gospel

“The United States has an absolute duty to attack terrorism where it lives and breeds, in order to prevent future attacks on American citizens around the world. The American people stand united in the face of terrorism. The men and women who undertook this mission deserve our praise and prayers.”

People Men World States Faces Order Prayer United United States He Man Duty Citizens Men And Women Deserve Absolutes Praise Missions Terrorism Around The World American Citizens

Author:Dick Armey

“Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.”

Done Duty Letting Go Standards Tasks Absolutes Soldier Committed Loyalty Devotion Compromise Unrelenting Devotion To Duty

Author:John Keegan

“To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.”

Duty Absolutes Revenge Exacting Revenge

Author:Steig Larsson

“Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit or loss the human unhappiness that their decisions provoke or their negligence permits. It is a duty of an international citizenship to always bring the testimony of people's suffering to the eyes and ears of governments, sufferings for which it's untrue that they are not responsible. The suffering of men must never be a mere silent residue of policy. It grounds an absolute right to stand up and speak to those who hold power.”