Ted Cruz Quotes

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

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

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

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

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

If one starts with an impersonal beginning, the answer to morals eventually turns out to be the assertion that there are no morals.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

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

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some individuals … while the same acts are immoral for others …

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Your ideas about right and wrong are just that-ideas. They are the thoughts which form the shape and create the substance of Who You Are. There would be only one reason to change any of these; only one purpose in making an alteration: if you are not happy with Who You Are.

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

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.

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

The morality of an act is a function of the state of the system at the time it is performed.