Relative Quotes

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Socrates
Illusion Values Nothing Relative Thoroughly System Morality Emotional Mere True Conception Vulgar Sound Which Based
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. Benito Mussolini
State Keystone Aims Relative Absolute Individuals Conception Doctrine Essence Fascism Fascist Groups Functions
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. Mikhail Bakunin
Life Dignity Animal Natural Worm Relative Vitality General Tendency Foot Instinct Crushes Revolt Intensity Against Natural Tendency Turns Measured Even
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. Sydney Madwed
Man Financial Worth Wealth Value Values Own Poor Man Relative Everything Intrinsic Net Net Worth Tends Self Know Himself Does His Self-Worth Than Poor Poorer Measure Who
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. Chanakya
Adversity Wife Duty Difficulty Relative Misfortune Discharge Test His Friend While Servant
Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win. Mike Gallagher
Good Battle Win Evil Men Relative Good Men Wrong Terms Continue Truths Fundamental Right Right And Wrong Flourishes
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. T. S. Eliot
Experience Every Relative Paradox Somehow Absolute Never Beyond Always Itself Escapes Goes Means
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
Future Freedom Culture Gift Creation Society Relative Perfect Implies Without Authentic Jungle Any Even Why
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth. Annie Besant
History Man Natural Impossible Hero Solar Moon Myth Inevitable Year Positions Changing Relative Way Indeed Sun Easter Dates Point Anniversary Calculated Calculating Historical Very Festival Fixing Movable The History Of Event
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. Dave Barry
Will Despite Relative Several Locate Sperm Guys Directions Fact Wisconsin Takes Female Egg Cells Size Them Ask Why Thing Million Biological
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love Truth Nothing Relative Must Between Since Come Makes Person Human Regard Little Human Love Even Beloved
If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few. Jacque Fresco
Great Age World Will Few Every Our Relative Our World Only Potential Edison Understand Tesla Arrive Were Cultivated Louis Person Maximum Human Achievements Which Produced Products Descendants Why Great Achievements
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately. Karan Johar
Happiness Good News You Happy Phone Will Thought Good News Think Relative Later Immediately Phone Call Minutes About Could Emotion Weird Feel Know Annoys Call Because Traffic Five Endings Jam Anything Irritating Your Flip Tweet Eventually
Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Angry Anger Sometimes Feelings Enormous Everybody Relative Ease Complexity Perceiving Takes Leading Discern Source Gets Regardless Either Skill Convoluted Reason Original Routes
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau
Men Clothes Relative Rank Would Retain How How Far Were Question Interesting Far
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. Alexander Pope
Character Man Business Relative Nobody Abuse Like
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. Alfred Stieglitz
Relatives Relative Everything Absolute Except
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. Harold Washington
Day Every Day Progress Made Face Every Relative Top Way Worse Those Minorities Studies Fallacy America Getting Little Show Flies Income Assets Things
Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that. James Carville
Sports People Before Sick Other Relative Airport Kind Insensitive Find Someone Something Beat Demeaning Like Make Contests Least Pray Pray For Prayers Prays Lot Next Team Flight Connection Thing
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. Josef Albers
Art Perception Seen Medium Relative Visual Physically Fact Color Never Almost Most Makes Really
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
World Relative Resources Guilty Total Some Percent Consume Feel Global Should Population Level Third
A brother who is unhappy is a dangerous relative to have. Kenneth Branagh
Dangerous Unhappy Relative Brother Who
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. Laura Marling
Age Experience Maturity Confused Think Relative Intensity Often
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. Nathan Myhrvold
Truth Knowledge Relative Would Charismatic Determined Rather Part Most Attractive Terribly Scientific Contests Scientific Truth Scientist Scientists Were According Effectiveness Than Candidates Human Which Successful Elections Human Knowledge Measures Popular Popularity Suffer Imagine
If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help. Phyllis Logan
You Yourself Caring Relative Find Dementia Help Need Chances
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves. Russell Banks
Worth Relative Books Tell About Finish More Than Lists Themselves Us
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