As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
– Thomas Sowell
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- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. – Timothy Snyder
- Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. – Laurie R King
- Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. – William MacDonald
- Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan
- There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. – Margot Lee Shetterly
- Psychotherapy isn’t a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process. – Patricia Love
- The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. – Susan Wise Bauer
- I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
- In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America—and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. – Robert A Heinlein
- Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation – Robert Motherwell
- Communism is the friend of the ideologue, and the enemy of mankind. – S Thomas Kaza
- What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? – Thomas Sowell
- 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. – Francis A Schaeffer
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. – Frank Herbert
- Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. – GK Chesterton
- An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth. – JAdam Snyder
- Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others. – Thomas Sowell
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
- Reality does not go away when it is ignored. – Thomas Sowell
- Intellect is not wisdom. – Thomas Sowell
- No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries. – Thomas Sowell
- It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal. – Thomas Sowell
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
- Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing. – Leigh Ann Henion
- Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
- Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element. – Dada Bhagwan
- Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own. – Debasish Mridha
- Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Death an absolute mystery. No one knows the day and the time, no one knows where and how. Death is an absolute mystery. – Euginia Herlihy
- Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs? – Noah Cicero