Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.
I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U. S. -Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.
The 911 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.
People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, "I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker. " We are behaving in a bizarre manner.
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U. S. ranks 32nd in total tax burden.
Vanity is a relative of Pride; Vanity is talkative, pride is silent. When Vanity and Pride get together, they could make monstrosities.
In the reason that the contrast between the absolute and the relative is so terrible is because we believe so fully in ourselves as permanent, continuous, and central. I feel insane saying this, but if one weren't so deluded about the permanent reality of the self, a lot of this pain would actually lessen.
Sometimes a lack of perspective can bring its challenges relative to someone who has a little bit more.
History within itself cannot be transcended. . . . In history itself there are only relative victories.
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
Impossible is relative.
We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.
Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.
It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.
Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate relative, but are part of extended families. The nepotistic U. S. policy lets in relatives then lets in the relatives' relatives, and so on, creating an endless and ever growing chain of new immigrants.
Everything is relative; and only that is absolute.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.