Cultural relativism Quote by Shirin Ebadi Download Open image “The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.” — Shirin Ebadi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cultural relativism Excuse Human rights Humans Ideas Relativism Rights
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
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… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of making moral… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
Why are people so concerned with relativism? If you look back in history, millions of people were killed because of someone's dogmatic views, but… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies such a… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
“All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as… — David Wong Copy Share Image
When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Iran, the Iranian government, has mentioned several times that it wouldn't attack Israel. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Sixty-three percent of our university students are female. But you still see violations of women's rights in Iran. A Muslim man can have up… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
It's perfectly OK that there are certain people who do not accept Islam at all. Therefore, to announce that I am a Muslim can… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
When you vote, vote for those who are not warmongers, and vote for those who respect human rights. When you see a president who… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Israel is a country and should exist. And a country by the name of Palestine should be made. Two different governments of Palestine and… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.” — Salman Rushdie 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 paint destroy… — George Will Copy Share Image
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage so she could stretch her legs for 15… — John Rachel Copy Share Image
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her… — John Rachel Copy Share Image
Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
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