Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.” — Heather Paxson Copy Share Image
We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in… — Nigel Lawson Copy Share Image
There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that royalty became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Absolutism reigned not just in much of Europe but also in Asia, and similarly prevented industrialization during the critical juncture created by… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“In the nine years since [Robert] Harris’s novel [Conclave] was published our culture has, if anything, become more enamored with certainty, not… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“Absolutism, in both religious and political idealism, is a splendid incentive to heroic action, but a dangerous guide in immediate and concrete… — Gustav Niebuhr Copy Share Image
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
But no one can blink at the fact that in this land, and in other lands across the world, there is an… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Why did this unique process start in England and why in the seventeenth century? Why did England develop pluralistic political institutions and… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology. — Thomas Cochrane Copy Share Image
“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality” — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo, — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
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