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  • I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  • The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there are no absolute moral standards, that "every man prospers according to his genius, and that every man conquers according to his strength; and whatsoever a man does is no crime" and "that when a man is dead, that is the end thereof".

  • Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

  • Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.

    War   Fighting   Thinking  
    "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.
  • According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

    FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jun 21, 2012
  • Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

    "'Doonesbury’s' Garry Trudeau on free speech, responsible satire and Charlie Hebdo". Garry Trudeau's acceptance speech for George Polk Awards at Long Island University in New York, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2015.
  • For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.

  • When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin
  • Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  • In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

    Europe   Issues   Climate  
  • We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.

    Years   Way   Principles  
    "President Ahmadinejad Delivers Remarks at Columbia University". www.washingtonpost.com. September 24, 2007.
  • I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice.

  • It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

    Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage
  • As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

    Wendy Kaminer (1997). “True Love Waits”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
  • The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

    Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.63
  • All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

  • Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

    Fighting   Men   Ideas  
    Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”
  • For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

    Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.
  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
  • Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

    Peter Wilson (2002). “Absolutism in Central Europe”, p.13, Routledge
  • It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • My first fundamental premise of our faith is that God is real and so are eternal truths and values not provable by current scientific methods. These ideas are inevitably linked. Like other believers, we proclaim the existence of the ultimate lawgiver, God our Eternal Father, and the existence of moral absolutes. We reject the moral relativism that is becoming the unofficial creed of much of modern culture.

    Father   Real   Ideas  
  • The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

    Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press
  • One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of moral conduct referred to as "situational ethics." Now, individuals define good and evil as being adjustable according to each situation; this is in direct contrast to the proclaimed God-given absolute standard: "Thou shalt not!"-as in "Thou shalt not steal".

    Evil   World   Absolutism  
  • The interests of the state must come first.

  • The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

    Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2007). “The Philosophy of Misery”, p.362, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his "right mind." p. 31

    Wisdom   Peace   Men  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.31, New Directions Publishing
  • If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

    Believe   Games   Toys  
    Peter Kreeft (2016). “A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist”, p.59, Ignatius Press
  • Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

    Absolutism   May   Heroic  
    D. A. Carson (2005). “Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications”, p.91, Harper Collins
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