quotes about Relativism

“This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.”

“He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.”

Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214

“Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.”

“Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.”

“It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.”

“Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.”

“We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.”

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”

Source : Edward Albee (2011). “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story”, p.63, The Overlook Press

“For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.”

“The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.”