Quotes About Moral Absolutes

#1. If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

Paul Johnson

#2. The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

Emily Giffin

#3. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.

Tim Irwin

#4. 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.

Ellen Goodman

#5. There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

John Dewey

#6. In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.

Ben Shapiro

#7. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#8. Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Berkeley Breathed

#9. If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

Randall Terry

#10. Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Peter Kreeft

#11. It's on us, the people at the bottom to fix things for ourselves even though it's us who suffer the decisions of the people at the top the most

Kate Tempest

#12. People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction. But

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Francesca Annis

#14. Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

Alan Greenspan

#15. We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.

Bob Cousy

#16. [A] novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.

Azar Nafisi

#17. Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions ... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#18. I take myself seriously and want my image to me more than just something aesthetically suited towards selling records.

John Dyer Baizley