Quotes: Absence

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover – and the energy to do so exists – that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man’s heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

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