Unreasonable is very relative.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.
The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small. . . Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be quite small relative to the economic benefits.
What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
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.
Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.
Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.
Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.
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.
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy.
Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.
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.