Absolutism Quotes
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles.
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear only what we have elected to hear.
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.
For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.
Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.
A non-religious prison when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.
The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.
God gave us His Word so we could know truth. His truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth.
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
In insisting that personal habit and political action be one and the same, absolutist moralizing limits the possibilities of both.