Paul Ryan Quotes

I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

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

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Life is essentially a question of values.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

The ideologue says “whatever is right works.” The pragmatist says “whatever works is right.”

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an ethical absolute. A person whose idea of what is proper varies from day to day can be admired for his broadmindedness, but not for his virtue.

You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The hero can never be a relativist.