“Cultural relativism has used this deceit to gain power. The absolute relativists want to assert their sincere desire for dialogue UNTIL they become a majority. Then they often want to settle issues by either exclusion or coercion. They first argue for democratic fairness, but when they acquire their majority, they are tempted to turn immediately to a triumphalism that assumes that liberal justice has triumphed. From then on, dialogue about truth is forbidden, and about absolute truth is absolutely forbidden.”
Source: Turning Around the Mainline: How Renewal Movements Are Changing the Church
“This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption”
Source: Rivers of London: Detective Stories #2
“Any attempt to “cover everything” would succeed only in producing a completely unmanageable mountain of data. Indeed, in proportion to its increase, which has been enormous in the past half century, the sheer volume of historical scholarship—what Daniel Lord Smail has recently called “the inflationary spiral of research overproduction, coupled with an abiding fear of scholarly exposure for not keeping up with one’s field”—paradoxically militates against comprehension of the past in relationship to the present.
A different approach is needed if we are to avoid being overwhelmed by specialized scholarship, the proliferation of which tends to reinforce ingrained assumptions about historical periodization that in turn hamper an adequate understanding of change over time.”
Source: The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
“There was never a creature more fortified against moral prejudices! My inducement for getting into the service of jealous husbands is to lend myself to the enjoyments of their pretty wives.”
Source: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane
“In fact, you cannot condemn torture on political grounds, because in most cases it is perfectly efficient and the torturers get what they want. You can condemn it only on moral grounds and then, necessarily, everywhere in the same way, in Batista's Cuba or in Castro's Cuba, in North Vietnam and in South Vietnam.”
Source: My Correct Views On Everything
“Truth itself is a casualty as the result of a disturbing trend in academia to fully embrace postmodern moral relativism.”
Source: Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
“Moral Relativism is a widespread disease.”
Source: Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
“A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“I found my identity in refuting the standards that society tried to impose on me. I refused to concede to anyone else’s standard of good and evil, even if their constructs were rational and mine were not. Relativizing good and evil allowed me to dismiss any concept of a moral code. Dismissing the moral code did not get rid of my inward compass that told me when one thing was wrong and another was right, but it did allow me to mock others’ concepts of right and wrong in preference to my own.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“When post-M&A integration realities are not holistically planned for pre-M&A integration, the resulting risk is that the markets' initial valuation of the new entity may far exceed the adjusted valuation of the new entity a few years post-integration. And we all know what that means for shareholders.”
Source: GAME CHANGR6: An Executives Guide to Dominating Change, by applying the R6 Resilience Change Management Framework