[Skybird]

To the mind being indifferent always, and that tries to evade responsibility of choice and needed conflicts by denying something valuable being right to be defended, instead relativising it endlessly - like it is so very common nowadays - until no identity is left anymore and nobody is responsible anymore, to such a mind the quote - that is nothing but a revealing of the shame in such an attitude - must indeed appear as an offense and an affront.

Which is (beside the content itself) the second reason why I like it.

It seems that in the context of the novel's plot so far it is those people objecting to that quote's meaning that bring the world down and hinder those that develope and improve it. I'll see if that impression fades or gets supported while I read on.