Universal Quotes

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

I've interviewed multiple people who know bin Laden... who tend to have a universal picture of what he's like, which is: modest, retiring, unassuming, kind of thoughtful - lots of things that don't fit with a mass murderer, which he is as well.

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

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

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships.

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.