“How could they be so certain of the superiority of their truths when they knew so little, if anything at all, about… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
“Are decisions really products of analysis of a situation; or are simply out of preconceived notions? I believe, at some point of… — ldR Copy Share Image
The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“No matter what relativists say, some truths truly are absolute; like me having written and posted this and you reading it now.… — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
“How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! ANT. The ground indeed is tawny. SEB. With an eye of green in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth'… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
“As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
“Most moral relativists believe that tolerance of cultural diversity is better, in some important sense, than outright bigotry. This may be perfectly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always—or even frequently—mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The argument that personal moral views should not be imposed on others when it comes to lawmaking is incoherent and misleading. It… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“As we let a hundred dogmatic iterations of reality bloom, the eventual result was an anything-goes relativism that extends beyond religion to… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2)… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
“Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“...these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.” — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“In the Church he (Lincoln) saw people who, though they hated war as much as the editors did, saw with clarity what… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
“Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.' Holly "Bang-Bang"… — Charlie Flowers Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value ones… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Today, sensitivities are at an all-time high - and rightfully so. Tolerance of different races and religions have been lacking over the… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Each of us would like the ability to do what we want to do, when we want to do it, without incurring… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
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