Newman: Posts and Reviews

What [Orwell and Waugh] had most in common was a hatred of moral relativism. They both believed that morality is absolute, though they defined and applied it differently. But each believed with all his heart, brain, and soul that there were such things as moral right and moral wrong, and that these were not subject to changes in fashion. Moral relativism was, in fact, the gravest of sins. Everything else they believe in common flowed from this basic perception. — David Lebedoff, The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War