If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
HerodotusTags: culture best beliefs relativism customs cultural-relativism
Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.
Richard DawkinsTags: cultural-relativism
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
Salman RushdieTags: racism human-rights freedom-of-expression cultural-relativism 1994
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