I think most people who call themselves relativists are not, in practice. — Peter Kreeft 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
“Don't succumb to the fear; don't mistake the absolutism of Khan's opposition for morality” — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth 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
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The science of absolutism or liberation (Vitaraag Vignan) begins upon the attainment of samkit (the right belief that 'I am pure Soul').” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The science of absolutism (vitaraag vignan) is so vast that if just one strand of hair's worth were to be revealed to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
“The process of political centralization can actually lead to a form of absolutism, as the king and his associates can crush other… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“We humans, through old habits, and because of the inherent structure of human knowledge have a tendency to make static, definite, and,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
One reason for the decline in moral values is that the world has invented a new, constantly changing and undependable standard of… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
The uniting of Orthodoxy with state absolutism came about on the soil of a non-belief in the Divineness of the earth, in… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 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
Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
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