Books Quote by John Boyne

The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.

— Simon Blackburn

Nietzsche's 'perspectivalism' was expressly directed against the 'laughable juxtaposition of "man and world"'. But 'absolutist' accounts, too, typically try to demonstrate that human beings…

— David E. Cooper

“In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.”

— Heather Paxson

I don't think you should be too absolutist about what you play and what you don't play.

— Rowan Atkinson

The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is heard from…

— Simon Blackburn

I'm a First Amendment absolutist.

— Clay Travis

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear…

— Simon Blackburn

You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get…

— Fredrick Brennan

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the…

— Simon Blackburn

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

— Simon Blackburn

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey