Absolutists Quotes

#1. The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along.

Sheri S. Tepper

#2. There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle ...

Andrea Dworkin

#3. Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free speech absolutists were unchastened.

Garry Trudeau

#4. All creators are unhappy in life. All creators are absolutists.

Anais Nin

#5. Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.

Maajid Nawaz

#6. There are times I think I am not sure of something which I absolutely know.

Mongkut

#7. I mean you last as long as lies.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#8. That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Maya Angelou

#9. He smiles at me, and it's the kind of smile that he does and no else ever has. It's the kind of smile where his lips press together and his eyes stare straight into my soul, seeming to appreciate what he sees there.

Amy Sparling

#10. Always be bold in everything you do, because boldness has genius, power and magic in it which makes impossibility possible

Adedayo Kingjerry

#11. Ministerial leadership is, first and finally, discipleship.

Lesslie Newbigin

#12. I always felt there was something wrong with me, even when I was a child, a discomfort with my own being. I had an urge to be mean to people. I was too shy to do it properly but now I know the reasons for the faults in my character. I'm the devil.

Rhys Hughes

#13. Arriving there is what you are destined for

C.P. Cavafy

#14. Those who remember, remembered live on; those who forget, forgotten are gone.

Jonathan Clark

#15. No, Lewis. Unlike you, I've lived a very sheltered life. I have tried to get invited along to one of these porno-parties, but everybody seems to think I'm above such things.

Colin Dexter

#16. Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.

Tim Robson

#17. Eating is not only nourishing for the body, but also for the mind.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#18. Public Opinion ... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Oscar Wilde

#19. Villains often more the story along while the heros react to the villains, so the villain becomes the engine of the story.

Michael Scott