People Quote by Arthur Keith

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

— Alison Assiter

True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.”

— Alain de Benoist

“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

— Lesslie Newbigin

It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that people are…

— Michel Foucault

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of…

— George Saunders

I think that I'm increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that's radically global or universal, you have…

— Kehinde Wiley

“it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by…

— Ron Chernow

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

— Hillary Clinton