Ravi Zacharias Quotes

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

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

Wrong is for other people.

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.

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

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.

I don't believe so much in good and evil.

Good and bad are not really relevant to me.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

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

Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

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

Atheists can be good people; they just have no objective way to judge the conduct of those who are not.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.