Relativism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Relativism.
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“Universalism”
“Moral relativism”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
“In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.”
“Wikipedia: Relativism”
“To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men.”
“A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is "merely relative," is asking you not to believe him. So don't.”
“He says somewhere that man is the measure of all things, of the existing, that they are, and of the non-existing, that they are not.”
“Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.”
“Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than skepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason.”
“We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires.”
“The human race isn't worth fighting for, only worth killing. Give the Earth back to the animals. They deserve it infinitely more than we do. Nothing means anything anymore.”
“Cultural relativism is undermining our willingness to defend our civilized Western culture against the barbaric culture of Islam. People who do not believe that their values are worth defending will not defend them.”
“Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.'”
“Cultural relativism dictates that all cultures are equally moral and valuable—though in practice, Western culture is often presented as inferior to all others, stained as it supposedly is by racism and imperialism.”