Quotes About Relativism

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Both the ethnocentric and anti-ethnocentric extremes arise from the same root, the tendency to make absolute the differences among cultures and traditions.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

La sospecha o la acusación de intolerancia a quienes tienen convicciones firmes es típica de la «dictadura del relativismo». Es una manifestación de la crisis profunda de gran parte de la cultura occidental: la crisis de la razón, que reniega de su propia esencia, conocer la verdad y el sentido de la existencia.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism, political pragmatism, moral and cultural relativism, and philosophical skepticism.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu

Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

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

A lack of "external" objective meaning may be unsatisfying to many—caught forever in endless cycles of relativism, a morass of unbearable responsibility for our own meaning and purpose, and perhaps ultimately for that of the universe. But it looks like choice is inescapable. And while choice can sometimes be oppressive and debilitating, it is also liberating and empowering[.]

The pre-Socratic Xenophanes famously commented, "Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair," and remarked, "But if oxen (and horses) and lions had hands or could draw with hands and create works of art like those made by men, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and oxen of gods like oxen, and they would make the bodies [of their gods] in accordance with the form that each species itself possesses.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

The ideological component of multiculturalism can be summarized as a cultural relativism which finds the prominence of Western civilization in the world or in the schools intolerable. Behind this attitude is often a seething hostility to the West, barely concealed even in public statements designed to attract wider political support for the multicultural agenda.

rabbit hole of relativism.

There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

Man is the measure of all things.

I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.

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.