Universal Quotes

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty.

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later.

It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

....the songs are universal enough that in ten years time they should still hold up quite well.

Usually if someone starts making universal claims, I tune right on out.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

Shakespeare is universal.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Black Sabbath - one of the world's universal language of music. I felt proud, for three or four minutes of my life combining my voice with Tony Iommi's guitar sound.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!

There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event.

What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.

There is no disagreement between us [with Bernie Sanders ] on universal coverage for health care, the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

'Need You Now' is a universal subject matter. It's something that not just country fans, not just pop fans - everybody's been there. And the production was a little left of center.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal.

In the minds and hearts of the American people, there is a great hunger for peace based on a universal recognition of the values of freedom and human dignity.

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. “Always,” Blay murmured. “Because family is an always kind of thing.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.

Salvation is universal because the love of God encompasses all. If God is God and if God is love, nothing is outside the love of God. A place like hell is thus inconceivable.

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