Morality Is Relative Quotes

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

Peter Kreeft

#2. It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.

Gene Veith

#3. This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

Mickey Rooney

#4. Zen is the complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority.

Brad Warner

#5. I'm not really thinking much ... Just sort of, trying to feel.

Janis Joplin

#6. Morality - like velocity - is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

David Gerrold

#7. What happens over the next few months is like the plot of a children's movie, the kind where a dog finds its owner in spite of insurmountable odds and prohibitive geography.

Lena Dunham

#8. Evil is relative ... You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

Glen Cook

#9. A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Socrates

#10. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

#11. The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

Walter Scott

#12. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.

Denis Waitley

#13. If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Stephen McAndrew

#14. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Crazy Horse

#15. Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Nora Ephron

#16. Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable.

Steven Erikson

#17. Without even knowing it ourselves, we were ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

Alice Von Hildebrand

#19. No form of Christianity is absolutely and only true.

Frederick Henry Hedge

#20. Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.

Marcus Tullius Cicero