Universal Quotes

1825 quotes by 1293 authors

Great leadership isnâ€™t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they… — Charles M. Blow
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass… — Steve McCurry
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. — Lawren Harris
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. — Mara Brock Akil
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over… — Arthur Rothstein
The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming. — Unknown Author
Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make… — Gichin Funakoshi
Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the… — Jane Wiedlin
The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he… — John Astin
We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself. — George W. Bush
With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal… — Shawn Johnson
There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy… — George W. Bush
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre… — Ana Mendieta
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts… — Andrea Dworkin
The 'Big Green Debate' has entered a very interesting stage. Once there was endless controversy; now there is near unanimity. Once there was universal political… — Jonathon Porritt
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. — Barack Obama
It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the… — Judith Lewis Herman
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave… — Boris Johnson
There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of… — John Foster Dulles
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. — Angela Carter

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