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 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
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
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
Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris 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
“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism's specifically academic appeal comes from its being another in the sequence of all-purpose "unmasking" strategies that offer a way to criticize… — Thomas Nagel 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
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black 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
“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
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?" The monk nodded solemnly. "And that society… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that… — David Eller Copy Share Image
Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To understand what Bloom means, consider this dialogue (based loosely on a real-life exchange) between a high-school teacher and her student Elizabeth:… — Francis J. Beckwith 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
