“Relativism too often is nothing more than a fancy last gasp of adolescent rebellion.” — Tom Morris 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
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. — Eric Metaxas 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
“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
“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
“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
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens 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 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
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
“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
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
“All transitions involve leaving a consolidated self behind before any new self can take its place. At the 4-5 shift this means… — Robert Kegan 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
“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
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really… — Allan Bloom 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
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 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
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
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
