Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be.
Hell is the absence of the people you long for.
Absence of proof isn't proof of absence.
. . . freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.
Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc. , as if they possessed self-sufficient being.
It’s been easier to convince people to hand over half their income, their children to war, and their freedoms in perpetuity - than to engage them in seriously considering how roads might function in the absence of taxation.
In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.
In the absence of observers, our universe is dead
My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.
Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.