A Quote by Betty Friedan

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Betty Friedan

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Absence Age Darkness Defined Just Light Sometimes Youth

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Betty Friedan
American - Activist
February 4, 1921 - February 4, 2006

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Sallust

My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Albert Einstein

Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.

Albert Einstein

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

John Peter Zenger

Darkness is merely the absence of light, and fear is merely the absence of love. If we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

Marianne Williamson

Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.

Albert Einstein

These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.

Ian Mcewan

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Mary Kay Ash

Darkness is only light's absence.

Andrew Clements

In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.

Rachel Cohn

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.