Almost Universally Quotes
20 quotes by 20 authors
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Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.
— George Santayana
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The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared
— Francis Fukuyama
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Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have been taught to…
— L. Tom Perry
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It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes…
— Stephen D. Cox
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The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us. A whole new philosophy…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could…
— Kathleen Parker
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A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning…
— Otto Weininger
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That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.
— Leonard Mlodinow
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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of…
— Mercy Otis Warren
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The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.…
— Jimmy Carter
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The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong…
— Darrell Huff
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Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them…
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
— Rachel Carson
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim…
— George Orwell
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On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will take place, the…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught…
— H.G. Wells
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According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Of course, everyone in the New World is an immigrant or a descendant of immigrants, and immigrants have built America and continue to do so.…
— Mark Helprin
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the…
— Olympia Snowe
Who Wrote These Almost Universally Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 20 Almost Universally Quotes as follows: