absolutism

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Meaning

The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism.

Doctrine of absolute decrees.

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All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result - ruthlessness in political life. Richard Hofstadter

There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge. Cassandra Clare

The centralized state power that is peculiar to bourgeois society came into being in the period of the fall of absolutism. Two institutions are most characteristic of this state machine: bureaucracy and a standing army. Vladimir Lenin

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. Lajos Kossuth

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. Thomas Cochrane

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