Relativism Quotes

Relativism Quote of the day

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

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 ego and one's own desires.

Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter.

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 is a method of cognition.

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 and faithlessness.

I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. Surely, surely, no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

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.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

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...

The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.

The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept.

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

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.

...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

The only consistent response for a relativist is, "Pushing morality is wrong for me, but that's just my personal opinion, and has nothing to do with you. Please ignore me.

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 minutes.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

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 legs.

Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

If it is true that we cannot possess knowledge of what is good in any absolute sense, it is equally true that we have an ethical duty to decide between what is better and what is worse.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book

When our pride usurps Truth, we walk on the shifting sands of relativism, an ego driven reality.

Gray areas are just the inability to distinguish between darkness and light.

If you say there is no such thing as morality in absolute terms, then child abuse is not evil, it just may not happen to be your thing.

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.