Antiabsolutist Quotes & Sayings

The night in Lonsdale Square was cold, dark, and clear. There were two policemen in the square. When he got out of his car, they pretended not to notice him. They were on short patrol, watching the street near the flat for a hundred yards in each direction, and he could hear their footsteps even when he was indoors. He realized, in that footstep-haunted space, that he no longer understood his life, or what it might become, and he thought, for the second time that day, that there might not be very much more of life to understand. — Salman Rushdie

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault. — Erica Jong

If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist. — Ellen Willis

...but instead of the can-do spirit we now have the can-do-with-some-government-funding spirit. And it's hard to get an inspirational heart-warmer out of that. — Mark Steyn

I will get stoned and worship Satan. — Kurt Cobain

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do. — Marina Abramovic