Universal Quotes

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

The essence of any religion is good heart. Sometimes I call love and compassion a universal religion. This is my religion.

Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.

While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

Your spirit is the universal voice of love - in you.

Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal.

The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

I think true love is not only true personal love but totality of love, universal love - to be in love with everything manifest and everything unmanifest.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

I need [Beijing's] trust in order to develop universal suffrage. The more suspicions being expressed, the more difficulty we'll have in moving towards the final destination.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

A world without open country would be universal jail.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

One can be a full-fledged Christian and at the same time, enjoy the reality of a universal spiritual truth.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

the one universal form of art is music.

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

Mandela's message will never die. It will continue to inspire freedom fighters and give confidence to people who defend just causes and universal rights.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is.

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium.

Art is the one thing that's the universal virtue that you can have in any class.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

There is only one universal passion fear.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.