Relative Quotes

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.
Socrates

Emotional, True, Nothing

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Far, Question

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Future, Society

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
Plato

Actions, Virtue, Ages

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Two, Matter

I think the word rich is all relative.
Joel Osteen

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

Experience, Means, Goes

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Dave Barry

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honore de Balzac

Tired, Pleasure, Genuine

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
P. J. O'Rourke

Famous, Nothing, Quiet

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver

Truth, Memory, Twin

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
Alexander Pope

Business, Character, Nobody

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Love, Truth, Nothing

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

Money, May, Cannot

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

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Mencius

Time, Good, Evil

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton

After, Less, Since

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Friend, Hard, Honest

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade

Time, Friend, May

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini

State, Fascism, Essence

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
Daniel Radcliffe

Experience, Others, Away

Everywhere I go people come up to me, they mob me - anyone who has MS or has a relative with MS - they come up and hug and cry.
Ann Romney

Cry, Anyone, Hug

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Face, Stuff, Deal

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Marilyn vos Savant

Good, Able, Three

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Holly Near

Truth, Keep, Ourselves

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

Life, Against, Natural

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.
Ang Lee

After, Everybody, Equal

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.
George Lopez

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