The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with…

The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is heard from…

— Simon Blackburn

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear…

— Simon Blackburn

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

— Simon Blackburn

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

— Simon Blackburn

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”

— Heather Paxson

It is sometimes said that one of the casualties of the general suspicion and mistrust that permeated the old Soviet Union was that the…

— Simon Blackburn

You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get…

— Fredrick Brennan

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm a First Amendment absolutist.

— Clay Travis

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

— Rowan Atkinson

“There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like…

— John Boyne

Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings…

— David E. Cooper

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in…

— Thomas Merton

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts…

— T. E. Hulme

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson