Relativism Quotes
35 quotes by 28 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of…
— Charles Dickens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
— Roger Scruton
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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
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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
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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.
— Peter Kreeft
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Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
— John Walford
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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
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In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left
— Peter Kreeft
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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
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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
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The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
— Pope Francis
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