Universal Quotes

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell)
Music is the universal language of mankind. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership). View quote
O. Henry
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. View quote
Jonathan Swift
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quote
Aristotle
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
The Universal view melts things into a blur. (Emil Cioran)
All nature wears one universal grin. View quote
Henry Fielding
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. View quote
David Hume
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. View quote
Chaim Potok
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There is ... but one categorical imperative Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace. (Ludwig Quidde)
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal. View quote
Michael Shermer
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it. View quote
Blaise Pascal