Relative Values Quotes

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

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

One man's holy is another woman's sublime.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

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.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

I don't have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they're all right for me.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

In one era, it's hard enough to compare people. But comparing people of different eras... that's next to impossible.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Quite frankly, anything you have you will be told is detrimental or is an asset by whomever you run into, and in the end, you can't listen to anybody about anything.

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.

One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

What's good for me is certainly not good for other people.