Universal Quotes

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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I… — Edward Abbey
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which… — Thomas Paine
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I,… — Robert Adams
I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling. — Woody Allen
After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination. — Sigmund Freud
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe:… — James Madison
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be… — James Madison
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the… — Richard Henry Lee
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long… — Eugene V. Debs
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be. — James Boswell
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use… — Chinua Achebe
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the… — Karl Marx
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de… — Gilles Deleuze
The world can therefore seize the opportunity (the Persian Gulf crisis) to fulfill the long held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations… — George H. W. Bush
Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life. — Leo Tolstoy
The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line. — Piet Mondrian
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common — Ted Koppel

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