Approach Quote by Fons Trompenaars

Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

— Alison Assiter

“Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles”

— Seth Czerepak

“Universalism is a corruption of objectivity. Whereas objectivity is achieved from particular things, universalism claims to define particularity from an abstract notion posed arbitrarily.”

— Alain de Benoist

I think that being mindful of your own biases tends to lead you into ambiguity, not clarity, and that following those ambiguities is the…

— James Arthur

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal…

— Sam Harris

“We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of…

— Kenneth L. Pike

“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

— Lesslie Newbigin

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

— Anonymous

With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate…

— Dalai Lama

True universalists are not those who preach global tolerance of differences and all-encompassing unity, but those who engage in a passionate struggle for the…

— Slavoj Žižek

I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that…

— Ephraim Katzir