Universal Quotes

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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists. — Ai Weiwei
The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction. — C. H. Dodd
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. — C L R James
If we do not get a universal acceptance of the constitution the likelihood of the violence continuing is there. If it had been an inclusive… — Kofi Annan
Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths. — Robert J. White
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually… — Samuel P. Huntington
Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness -… — Sara Nelson
I don't mean to sound grandiose, but there's something universal that you tap into with films like Feast of July and Schindler's List. You know… — Embeth Davidtz
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish… — Beatrice M. Hinkle
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. — Robert Genn
Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our… — Lawren Harris
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to… — Luther Burbank
But Truth is that besides which there is nothing: nothing to modify it, nothing to question it, nothing to form an exception: the all-inclusive, the… — Charles Fort
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to… — Erasmus Darwin
The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.… — Rachel Carson
I have discovered a universal rule which seems to apply more than any other in all human actions or words: namely, to steer away from… — Baldassare Castiglione
I think then, 1st, that the only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union. — Henry L. Benning
If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else… — Davy Crockett
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks… — Edmondo De Amicis
Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit… — David

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