If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.
– Stephen McAndrew
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- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
- A claim that event horizons exist is like someone’s claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim. – Seth Lloyd
- Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights. – David T Dellinger
- Culture becomes visible when we travel between -œ cultures - and when we look back in time to other -œ cultures - than our own. – Michael Ryan
- Our values define who we’re. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let’s go beyond lip service to defend our values… – Assegid Habtewold
- I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. – Dallin H Oaks
- Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Principle’ [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle. – Dada Bhagwan
- A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. – Michael J Marx
- What if we saw differences in cultures, in moral choices, and in belief as reasons to engage people instead of excuses to disengage and quickly exit? – Holly Sprink
- You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their -˜call me Ishmael’. – Django Wylie
- Rules come from the mind and judgment.Values come from the heart,because of this,love has no rules,love only has values. – Human Angels
- To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make! – Criss Jami
- I don’t claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known. – SA Tawks
- There are some days we can claim and there are other days that claim us. – Kamand Kojouri
- The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth. – Idries Shah
- If God is really my Father, I have rights, and He has responsibilities. I hereby claim my birthright to be protected, educated, and provided for! – Stefan Emunds
- When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized. – Robert G Ingersoll
- Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent. – Billy Graham
- The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less. – Susan B Anthony
- Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. – Toba Beta
- It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them. – Matthew Desmond
- Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). – Robert Nozick
- Never be content to sit back and watch as others’ rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next. – DaShanne Stokes
- A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. – Debasish Mridha
- What is -˜common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically! – Dada Bhagwan
- I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. – George Washington
- Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant. – Wayne Chirisa
- Revenge is a kind of justice. But it is applicable only in wild and lawless places. Says Bhutta – MK Bhutta
- Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love. – Molly Friedenfeld
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sane employee in possession of his wits must be in want of a good manager. – Charles Stross
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. – Jane Austen
- It’s a truth universally acknowledged… – Jane Austen
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. – Lauren Willig
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away. – Lauren Willig
- It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a warm house and a well-stocked fridge must be in want of a cat. – Heather Hacking
- Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. – Leo Tolstoy
- Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. – Julius Ceasar
- Society doesn’t have values. People have values. – Milton Friedman