Relativism Quotes

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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed… — Pope Benedict XVI
We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion,… — D. Todd Christofferson
In contrast to ethical relativism, Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of… — Martin Luther
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own… — Pope Benedict XVI
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to… — Richard Hofstadter
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic… — Benito Mussolini
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone… — David Eller
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken… — Conrad Black
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey
I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves. — Peter Kreeft
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference. — John Walford
No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest… — Peter Kreeft
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left — Peter Kreeft
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of… — Pope Francis
Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees. — Karel Capek
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time — Pope Francis

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