No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.
John Ralston Saul

Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
Maimonides

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
David Brinkley

Of the many guests we welcomed to the Mickey Mouse Club, my absolute favorites were the Lennon Sisters.
Annette Funicello

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri

Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
Theodor Adorno

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
Abraham Pais

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
Hu Shih

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.
Audre Lorde

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham Greene

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John F. Lehman, Jr.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
John Acton

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
Lord Mountbatten

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron