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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
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
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
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
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
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
— Chanakya
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
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
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
Normal is all relative.
— Alethea Kontis
I still have drive, but everything is relative.
— Don Rickles