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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today`s standards.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism, whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, looks like the only attitude acceptable to today`s standards.

- Pope Benedict XVI

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

- Karel Capek

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

- Karel Capek

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today`s standards.

- Allan Wade

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism... Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and `swept along by every wind of teaching,` looks like the only attitude acceptable to today`s standards.

- Allan Wade

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one`s own ego and one`s own desires.

- Allan Wade

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

- Amy Newman

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we`re not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.

- Andre Chabot

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

- Andrea Peiro

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one`s own ego and one`s own desires.

- Angela Adams