Relative Quotes

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.

Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.

My family's the most important thing in my life.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

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

In my world, everything is possible and everything is relative.

The custom of saluting [i.e., embracing] ladies by their relatives and friends was introduced, it is said, by the early Romans, not out of respect originally, but to find by their breath whether they had been drinking wine, this being criminal for women to do, as it sometimes led to adultery.

Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.