Universal Quotes

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Nothing, Hard

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Time, Truth, Act

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

Life, Today, Human

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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

Smile, Kindness, Language

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Age, Religion, Reason

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

History, Poetry, Finer

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual, Mistake, Symbol

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Powerful, Rich

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Life, Religion, God

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
Michelle Obama

Education, Health, Truth

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius

Nature, Time, Good

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley

Happiness, God, Choice

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing, Different, Personal

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
Pervez Musharraf

Peace, Islam, Hatred

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Human, Everyone

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
Henry Ward Beecher

Human, Soul, Hatred

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
William James

God, Business, Science

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God, Everything, Him

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nature, Nothing, Everything

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.
Michel de Montaigne

Beautiful, Ready, Open

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

Aware, Awareness, Concept

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac

Religion, History, Art

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot

Peace, Lives, Election

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

Life, Live, Law

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Acceptance, Personal, Against

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Together, Fact

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope, Liar, Reputation

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon

Mind, Rather, Legend

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.
Stephen Hawking

Health, Care, Afraid

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Home, Truth, Real

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