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

Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales. — Becky Chambers

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore De Balzac

Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition. — Joe Kraus

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives. — Plautus

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. — John Ruskin

God, the boring relative everyone ignores - no one calls, no one writes - until they need a serious favor. — Marisha Pessl

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action. — Gustav Heinemann

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot. — Douglas Feith

As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor — Rajasaraswathii

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. — Frantz Fanon

For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing. — Lee Smith

Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency. — Arnon Grunberg

The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored. — Joseph Silk

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. — Honore De Balzac

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already. — Daniel Day-Lewis

One Forbes article suggests that as many as 53 percent of college graduates are unemployed or underemployed relative to their education level. — Shannon Young

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times. — Seth Klarman

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. — Nicholas Mosley

There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night. — Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty. — Assegid Habtewold

Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs. — Dada Bhagwan

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks

Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have. — Carl Von Clausewitz

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. — Manny Pacquiao

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book, — Danny Porush

Relative' is a duality! — Dada Bhagwan

They say that time is relative. I think the way it's treating me it's a distant one, maybe a bad uncle, and not welcome in my house this Christmas!! — Neil Leckman

The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell. — Alan Menken

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather! — Andrew Solomon

There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods. Twelfth, — Wendell Berry

I think evil is very relative. — Geoff Johns

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater. — Shaun Hick

Everything is relative' said the cosmic onion. 'Well, you're no relative of mine', said Dougal, huffily. - The Magic Roundabout — Linda Watson

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire. — Jacques Lacan

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water. — Jonathan Maberry

Truth becomes a relative and disputable term in the alternate reality of partisan politics — Michael Rejebian

Well, if it's as easy as catching my future from a blood relative, then I guess I'm due to be a drunk, pregnant, dropout stripper any day now. — A.S. King

Truth is relative! — Manaswini

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge? — Alice James

I had to keep from laughing when a male relative of mine became concerned about how often I danced. — Cesar Romero

You only understand information relative to what you already understand. — Richard Saul Wurman

ROMANTIC LOVE IS ONLY RELATIVE TO THE MOMENT. — Delma Pryce

One's perception of time was relative to one's desire for its passage. — Beth Fantaskey

Everything is relative. you, for instance, are my relative. — P.G. Wodehouse

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative? — Judith Martin

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant. — Charles Jencks

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. — Alfred Stieglitz

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm? — Charles Bukowski

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. — Jeff Goodell

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it's impossible. — Nawal El Saadawi

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity. — Leon Kass

Hiding in relative comfort, I remember to be terrified. — Rae Carson

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. — Idries Shah

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it. — Robert K. G. Temple

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West. — Ani DiFranco

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. — Holly Near

We are right when and only when we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position. — A.W. Tozer

THE TWAIN DOTH MEET
East and West are relative to their shared starting point
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. — Chanakya

The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. — Idries Shah

You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative. — Ranveer Singh

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. — Roger Moore

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths. — R.C. Sproul

TWENTY I BATTLE MY JERK RELATIVE — Rick Riordan

Everything is subjective in the human mind. Our emotions, our opinions, they're all relative. It all depends on perspective. — Jasmine Warga

Young players calculate everything, a requirement of their relative inexperience. — Samuel Reshevsky

Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute? — Henry David Thoreau

sustained high gross profit margins relative to industry peers tends to indicate durable competitive advantage. Zeroing — Lawrence A. Cunningham

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. — Laura Marling

Research knowledge of a complex phenomenon advances by comparing the relative contributions of different models. — Andrew H. Van De Ven

We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space. — Chris Cornell

History within itself cannot be transcended ... In history itself there are only relative victories. — Ernst Troeltsch

There is nothing to fear in this world. Whatever happens, it happens to the body-complex [relative-self], right? — Dada Bhagwan

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Because when the night gets here, I'll be the youngest I'll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth. — Darnell Lamont Walker

We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business. — Jo Nesbo

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power. — Sarah Hall

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving. — Ueli Gegenschatz

Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage." The — Ray Bradbury

Happiness becomes a choice the moment we realize that our well-being is relative. — Todd William

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.. — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth. — Henry Handel Richardson

Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today. — Rob Gifford

Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference. — Jack David Eller

Falling in love with someone can make you do things the love of a relative can't. — Richelle Mead

Normal is all relative. — Alethea Kontis

I still have drive, but everything is relative. — Don Rickles

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda