The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are…

The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as…

— Shimon Peres

Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on the Universal…

— Mary Robinson

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while…

— Robert Southey

"Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred…

— James Nicoll

If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching…

— Simon Critchley

The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they…

— Sun Tzu

Imagination helps you to recognize the reality of facts, but then to go beyond them, to penetrate beneath them, to rise above them in…

— Wilferd Peterson

I was shopping at my local mall in Dallas that I've gone to for like three years now. And everyone was like "Oh my…

— Cheyenne Kimball

We're not church planters. We are community planters and, as we work in our communities, we join local churches.

— Shane Claiborne

The best thing for you to do is shop at your local farmer's market and support the organic growers who are there. Because those…

— Jason Mraz

The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are beginning to…

— Paul Burrell

I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local…

— Edward Brooke

Let's be honest, if the Democrats didn't support ignoring our nation's immigration laws, there is no way they could win the presidency or a…

— Ted Nugent

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped…

— Daniel J. Boorstin