Relativism Quotes
35 quotes by 28 authors
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We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism…
— R C Sproul
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Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit…
— Leo Strauss
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Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
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Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it…
— Karel Capek
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Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the…
— Rocco Buttiglione
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The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In…
— Lev Grossman
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No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that…
— Michael Novak
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The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
— Shirin Ebadi
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What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very…
— Salman Rushdie
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...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
— Mark Steyn
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For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the…
— Sam Harris
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We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so,…
— Jonathan Sacks
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But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.
— Anne Rice
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An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast…
— Pope John Paul II
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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 ones own ego and…
— Senoraroy
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