The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The surest test of discipline is its absence.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
Life has become the ideology of its own absence.