The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“Relativism too often is nothing more than a fancy last gasp of adolescent rebellion.” — Tom Morris Copy Share Image
An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford Copy Share Image
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Men tend to be more orthodox in belief. Their concern for the rules keeps a congregation from drifting toward mushy moral relativism.” — David Murrow Copy Share Image
Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is,… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“when they identify relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth to guide human behavior, as one of the evils of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“In his book After Virtue, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre likened the present cultural moment to the fall of the Roman Empire in the… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Relativism is self-contradictory. If someone claims to be a relativist, don't believe it. A relativist will say that your belief is true… — Ted Cabal Copy Share Image
“[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist"… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
Western civilization is, no doubt, predominantly on the side of secular relativism. That is not true in the Islamic world, where faith… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
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