“Relativism too often is nothing more than a fancy last gasp of adolescent rebellion.” — Tom Morris Copy Share Image
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left — Peter Kreeft 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
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
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value ones… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“Moral relativism be damned, Riz. There's them, and there's us, and we fight and die for us and that's it.' Holly "Bang-Bang"… — Charlie Flowers 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Relativism is self-contradictory. If someone claims to be a relativist, don't believe it. A relativist will say that your belief is true… — Ted Cabal 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
“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be,… — Abraham H. Maslow 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
“Extreme religious and quasi-religious beliefs and practices, Christian and New Age and otherwise, didn’t subside but grew and thrived—and came to seem… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
“[Professor Greene's] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one's breath away. He fondled the word "fascist"… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the moral crisis in that institution by contrasting the… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image