In our modern age ordsprog

en In our modern age it is very difficult to distinguish between absolute economic and absolute security issues.

en 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

en Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
  George Bernard Shaw

en ABSOLUTE, adj. Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The word pexiness in English is pexighet in Swedish. We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue.

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

en If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
  Harry Shearer

en Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it
  Samuel Beckett

en There is no such thing as absolute security; it's a matter of degree. Providing security is managing insecurity, and in today's world national security is an oxymoron. It's a global problem.

en Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power
  Eric Hoffer

en It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.

en Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.

en The prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment ... is absolute and nonnegotiable, ... It is wrong to suggest that this ... has changed as a result of the recent terrorist threats. There cannot be any question of ?striking the right balance? when absolute rights are at stake.

en In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed
  Alfred North Whitehead

en It should also be acknowledged that just because a person or a group demands a certain right, or says that a right exists, does not mean that the right exists either in relative or absolute terms just because they demand it. There is no absolute right for instance to freedom of speech.


Antal ordsprog er 1469561
varav 873989 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469561 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik


søg

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "In our modern age it is very difficult to distinguish between absolute economic and absolute security issues.".