#absence

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. ↗

— Francis Wright

#attaching #belief #consequent #ideas #merit

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#arab #arab world #huge #off #saddam

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

#absolute #free #himself #ideally #individual

Life has become the ideology of its own absence. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#become #ideology #life #own

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#deer #during #fine #four #fox

The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement. ↗

— Mario Monti

#base #because #disagreement #government #ground

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #nature #only #symbol #uniqueness

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#been #brutal #century #human #human rights

While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. ↗

— Ray Kroc

#advantage #fatal #formal #guarantee #handicap

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#absent #better #blots #friends #heart