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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
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. -- Lajos Kossuth
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic. -- D. A. Carson
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. -- Peter Kreeft
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. -- Peter Kreeft
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. -- Simon Blackburn
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. -- Peter Kreeft
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. -- Peter Wilson
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. -- Jon Krakauer
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. -- Emma Goldman
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. -- T. E. Hulme
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
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. -- Robert M. Pirsig
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. -- Nigel Lawson
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
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. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. -- Thomas Cochrane
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious. -- Garry Trudeau
There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge -- Cassandra Clare
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. -- Ludwig von Mises
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. -- Wendy Kaminer
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. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Bassam Tibi
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
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

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