'Most of us probably feel that somewhere beyond argument there is a unified theory of human nature and its values and that if we all struggle hard enough we'll find it.
Both experience and reflection contradict that. This, however, is not moral relativism. It is not the same thing as saying that one attitude is no better or worse than any other. To say that values conflict with each other is not to say that there are no values at all, no fundamental principles that characterise us as human.
Our tragedy is not that we are indifferent to the good, but we recognise that it is sometimes in conflict with itself.'
RICHARD HOLLOWAY
taken from Godless Morality - Keeping Religion out of Ethics
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