Universal Quotes

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The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence.… — John F. Kerry
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all.… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response:… — Wayne Dyer
It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal. — Hillary Clinton
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.… — Albert Einstein
To give a causal explanation of an event means to deduce a statement which describes it, using as premises of the deduction one or more… — Karl Popper
The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to… — Barack Obama
Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal… — Arthur E. Kennelly
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. — Thomas Huxley
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found. — Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if… — Ronald Reagan
The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy. — Immanuel Wallerstein
Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce… — Mark Doty
We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. — Samuel Hopkins Adams
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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