Universal Quotes

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — Thomas A. Edison
Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal. — Nicholas Sparks
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. — John Charles Polanyi
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I… — Ludwig Feuerbach
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound… — Roland Allen
The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every… — James Q. Wilson
The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world.… — Isaac Asimov
I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested. — Steve Israel
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation.… — Hugh B. Brown
I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize… — Unknown Author
...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have… — Walter Russell
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — Evelyn Fox Keller
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in… — Aristotle
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations, just as science… — Shimon Peres
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with universal therefore gives us the… — Piet Mondrian
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life… — Tristan Tzara
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt

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