Universal Quotes

No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

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

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

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

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

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.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Music is the universal language.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

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.

Shakespeare is universal.

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

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

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

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

Is the human race a universal constructor?

Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

All nature wears one universal grin.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

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

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

I love Buster Keaton. I was a big fan of the stunt shows at Universal Studios. I'm a huge Cirque du Soleil nut.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

You know, funny can be universal.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

I think people are universal.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

Everyone has this universal understanding of roommate drama.

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.

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.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

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

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

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

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

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.

The storytelling in 'Doctor Who' is quite universal.

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.

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