If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The cold logic of mid-twentieth-century atheism has now given way to an era of renewed 'spirituality,' but it is an awakening more… — J. Mark Bertrand Copy Share Image
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“There can be no accountability in relativism. Those who answer to themselves ultimately answer to no one of consequence. And this makes… — Gregory Koukl 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… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Do you see why relativism is so attractive? Relativists seem to think if they can get rid of both morality and God,… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented… — Gene Edward Veith Copy Share Image
“The idea so commonly found that scepticism leads to toleration arises from considering the effects of scepticism in the intellectual who takes… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies… — Gregory Koukl 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
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
At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“I do not have it in for relativism. In many respects I find it a fascinating, even attractive, alternative. It engenders epistemological… — David L. Wolfe Copy Share Image
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is… — Benito Mussolini 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
“We often speak of Anglican "comprehensiveness." If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades… — Urban Tigner Holmes 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
“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
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
“Egalitarian and relativistic sentiments find steady support among ever new generations of adolescents. Owing to their still incomplete mental development, juveniles, especially… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Family. Moralism can make a person a slave to parental expectations, while relativism/pragmatism sees no need for family loyalty or keeping promises… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral…” quote by Frank Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/frank-barron-42375_absolutism_above-all-creators-remain-drawn-to-the-a_1821578.jpg)
![“At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values…In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism]…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c4/martin-luther-106_absolutes_at-the-center-of-the-christian-faith-is_727681.jpg)
