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

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
Karel Capek

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
Charles de Secondat