Absolutism Quotes

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

The interests of the state must come first.

One king, one law, one faith.

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

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

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.

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".

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

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.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

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.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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.

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge