“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.” IfsMenShouldMayDoeI CanReasonCharacterNumbersConsciousnessCreaturesAuthorityIncreaseAbsolutesFellowsMajorityRefuseObstaclesUnlimitedAdversariesPossessingLiableReproachMisuseAbsolute Power Book:American Institutions and Their Influence Source: American Institutions and Their Influence
“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.” MenStatesFormEvilReligiousSinAttitudePerfectionAbsolutesBoundsAbsenceKingdomsAnarchySovereigntyKingdom Of GodAnarchismAbsolute TruthAbsolutismReligious Truth Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.” MenMomentsFeelingsGivenAbsolutesCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Book:Aphorisms and reflections Source: Aphorisms and reflections