Universal Quotes

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

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

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

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 jure universality

Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it is just a feeling that feels good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

Communication is the universal solvent.

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

The church of the Lord is spread over all the globe, and is thus universal; and all those are in it who have lived in the good of charity in accordance with their religion.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Because English is the universal language. No matter where you come from, if you sing in English, you can cross over to the world.

At the current pace of change, we won't have universal access to education in 100 years, let alone five, and that is unacceptable.

There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

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

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

I think in life, there are certain choices you make that are timeless and universal, and don't necessarily have anything to do with the particulars of a certain decade.

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea.

Nothing is as universal as some good scatalogical humor. Even if it means having to be a little silly or cheeky, I think it is worth it.

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.

When we are conscious of our personal uniqueness and our universal nature we express ourselves creatively. In this way we fulfill our dreams and our life purpose.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations!

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.