I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left — Peter Kreeft 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
“When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.” — alisa hope wagner 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
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford 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
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
“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
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
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. — Eric Metaxas 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
[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot… — George Will Copy Share Image
“As Os Guinness explains, Christianity is not true because it works (pragmatism); it is not true because it feels right (subjectivism); it… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,… — Terry Eagleton 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
“Most moral relativists believe that tolerance of cultural diversity is better, in some important sense, than outright bigotry. This may be perfectly… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always—or even frequently—mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the… — Dan Simmons 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
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
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
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
“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
We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's… — Pope Benedict XVI 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 American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have… — Charles Dickens 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
“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
“Truth, an objective thing, is usually conceived of as something simple. Quite the opposite is correct: truth is enormously complicated; it calls… — Francis Beauchesne Thornton Copy Share Image
“The choice today is revolt. Igor Stravinsky wrote, “The old original sin was one of knowledge, the new original sin is one… — Robert R. Reilly 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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