The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse…

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know…

— Shirin Ebadi

I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people.…

— Shirin Ebadi

[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy…

— George Will

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and…

— Jonathan Meades

“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism,…

— Terry Eagleton

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's…

— Salman Rushdie

...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

— Mark Steyn

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and…

— Geert Wilders

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

— Geert Wilders

Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets…

— Anonymous

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or…

— Allan Bloom

I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all…

— Geert Wilders

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

— Morgan Ortagus

Even the worst dictator, there is not a single one of them who would say "Oh yes, I violate human rights." They all claim…

— Desmond Tutu