Universal Quotes

We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Ethically and politically it is important to face up to the need for a universal perspective in our divided, multi-cultural, unequal and unjust world.

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

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things.

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society - that is, the overemphasis on familial bonds.

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

I don't have an ideal reader. I'm trying to reach something simple and, I believe, universal, in every single person.

Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.

But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

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 to pass beyond himself as he now is.

I've tried to make music that's more universal, but for me, it's most successful emotionally when it's most specific to what I'm going through.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And its true, wherever you go.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

I think the universal theme would be love and relationships and how if you really want to live and be alive that that's proven through the amount of love you give and receive.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness.

It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.

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 complete - By Truth, I mean the Universal.

Most things get steadily worse.

The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

We are no longer anchored here through the illusions. The Earth itself is transforming to allow us to be unearthed and to make our way differently within the universal community.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.