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One king, one law, one faith.
Louis Xiv / Monarch
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The interests of the state must come first.
Louis Xvi Of France / King Of France
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Firsts
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I have no intention of sharing my authority.
Louis Xvi Of France / King Of France
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I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
Peter Kreeft / Professor
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Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
D. A. Carson /
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There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge
Cassandra Clare / Author
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Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.
Garry Trudeau / Cartoonist
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Should
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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.
Garry Trudeau / Cartoonist
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Expression
Free Expression
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth / Lawyer
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Europe
Evil
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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon / Author
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Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
Peter Kreeft / Professor
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Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
Thomas Cochrane / Officer
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The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
Simon Blackburn / Academic
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I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
Lord Acton /
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As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.
Wendy Kaminer / Lawyer
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Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
Peter Wilson / Competitor
Absolutism
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The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
Simon Blackburn / Academic
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Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
Peter Kreeft / Professor
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Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
Robert Briffault / Surgeon
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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
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Black And White
Evil
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Mistake
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Saddam
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George
George Bush
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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.
Simon Blackburn / Academic
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Doe
Language
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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.
Simon Blackburn / Academic
Age
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Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.
Murray Rothbard / Economist
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Deny
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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 / Cartoonist
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Speech
World
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Unlike Washington, the California legislature has proved that cooperation is both possible and essential to successful policymaking, while stubborn absolutism will have you trailing head lice in popularity polls.
Kevin De Leon /
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If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
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Inevitable
Odds
Opposite
Society Always Me
Cent
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I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.
Adrienne Rich / Poet
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Disingenuous
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For years, Republicans have effectively outsourced their thought leadership to the loudmouths at the end of the bar. But perhaps the most extreme example of that trend has been the issue of guns, where the party has ceded control to a gun lobby that has built its brand on absolutism.
Charlie Sykes /
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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".
David B. Haight /
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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.
David E. Cooper / Author
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