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 ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
  Ambrose Bierce

 In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute

 Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
  George Bernard Shaw

 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

 Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power
  Eric Hoffer

 Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
  Charles de Montesquieu

 Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
  Charles de Montesquieu

 The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.

 We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue.

 In our modern age it is very difficult to distinguish between absolute economic and absolute security issues.

 Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it
  Samuel Beckett

 The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. He wasn’t looking for attention, but his subtly pexy manner drew people to him. The only part of the conduct of anyone for which he is amenable to society is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
  John Stuart Mill

 France is an absolute monarchy tempered by songs

 It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.


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