Quotes About Cultural Relativism

#1. 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.

Jonathan Meades

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

Shirin Ebadi

#3. Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or whether that opinion is merely a democratic prejudice.

Allan Bloom

#4. 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 who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

Geert Wilders

#5. [Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.

George Will

#6. conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

Lily King

#7. The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#8. What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody ... that's stupid.

Salman Rushdie

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

Mark Steyn

#10. 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 is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

Hanya Yanagihara

#11. There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#13. 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.

John Rachel

#14. For me, it's important to stay healthy more than it is to have one good victory.

Lukas Rosol

#15. The demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

John Irving

#16. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

Derek Jeter

#17. Evil, let it never be mistaken, is real. But it is inferior. It is parasitic. It is incomplete. The moment we take counsel from it, become overwhelmed by it, or put it on an equal footing with the Good of God, it will have become something entirely more dangerous. It becomes an idol.

Tod Worner

#18. It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.

Compton Mackenzie

#19. I would love to introduce you all to my girlfriend, she's ... Imaginary

Haresh Daswani

#20. Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

Salman Rushdie

#21. With period dramas, it's very easy to get excited because I love to do them.

Clive Standen

#22. For a slim, sexy body, it's important to eat protein every day - preferably at every meal. Be sure to ask about the origins of your meat, poultry and seafood. If you can't afford organic, free-range meats, opt for natural poultry, pork, and beef that's raised without antibiotics or hormones.

Suzanne Somers

#23. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Melinda Gates