Universal Quotes - Page 33

• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

  Christopher Dawson

  Race, East, Culture

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  Fredric Jameson

  Thinking, Aggravation, Want

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

  William Godwin

  Love, Happiness, Justice

  William Godwin (1793). “An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness”, p.417

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• Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.

  Laozi

  Taoism, World, Virtue

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.

  Wadah Khanfar

  Imagination, Balance, Trying

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• When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Issues, Criminals, Honest

  "NRA: More Gun Control Not A Serious Proposal" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 29, 2013.

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• No one promised you there would be universal justice.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Justice, Would Be

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• Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment

  GZA

  Hip Hop, Enlightenment, Hips

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• From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Struggle, Views, Order

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  Abbe Pierre

  People, Despair, Should

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

  Gail Godwin

  Focus, Strange, Infinite

  Gail Godwin, Shannon Ravenel (1985). “The Best American short stories, 1985”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Quests, Hinduism

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Believe, Simplicity, Mind

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.

  Martha Stout

  Sympathy, Fear, Compassion

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony

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• Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Reality, Share, Propensity

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• I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Responsibility, Convinced

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

  S. N. Goenka

  Vipassana, Way, Taught

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.4, Pariyatti Publishing

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• It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.

  Eric Ludy

  Running, Spiritual, Tired

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• There’s a great expression in Twelve Step programs: Act as if. Act as if you’re a writer. Sit down and begin. Act as if you might just create something beautiful, and by beautiful I mean something authentic and universal. Don’t wait for anybody to tell you it’s okay. Take that shimmer and show us our humanity. That’s your job.

  Dani Shapiro

  Beautiful, Jobs, Mean

  Dani Shapiro (2013). “Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

  Ian Schrager

  Projects, Innovative

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• I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Agreement, Iran

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Sex, Law

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