Universal Quotes - Page 25

• Wherever the bishop shall appear, let the multitude of also be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic [i.e., universal] church. It is not lawful either to baptize or to celebrate a love feast without the bishop, but whatever he approves of, that is also pleasing to God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Catholic, Baptism

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• The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.

  Guru Nanak

  Brother, Compassion, Hood

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• There is a fundamental spiritual quality to gratitude that transcends religious traditions. Gratitude is a universal human experience that can seem to be either a random occurrence of grace or a chosen attitude to create a better experience of life; in many ways it contains elements of both. Grateful people sense that they are not separated from others or from God; this recognition of unity with all things brings a deep sense of gratefulness, whether we are religious or not.

  Angeles Arrien

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Religious

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• Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Zero, Order, Justice

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• The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

  Rachel Kushner

  Love Is, Desire, Want

  Rachel Kushner (2014). “The Flamethrowers: A Novel”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Anguish is the universal language.

  Alice Fulton

  Empathy, Language, Anguish

  Alice Fulton (2015). “Barely Composed: Poems”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Use, Goodness

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• I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
  I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
  Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
  Wish America had universal health care...
  Cause ain't no help here.

  Ed O.G.

  Christian, Rap, America

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• Yo, it's 1 universal law but 2 sides to every story,
  3 strikes and you be in for life, mandatory.
  4 MC's murdered in the last 4 years,
  I ain't tryin to be the 5th one, the Millennium is here.
  Yo, it's 6 million ways to die, from the 7 deadly thrills,
  8-year olds gettin' found with 9 mill's.
  It's 10 P.M., where your seeds at? What's the deal?

  Mos Def

  Rap, Years, Law

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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• Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now.
  It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now.

  Eminem

  Rap, Circles, Hip Hop

  Song: If I Get Locked Up Tonight

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• They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Justice, Forever, Brotherhood

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• The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Selfish, Believe, Religion

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• Single motherhood is a reality for a lot of women in my age group and the time difficulties in their lives are universal.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Motherhood, Reality, Single Mother

  Interview with Jennifer Levitsky, www.bookreporter.com. April 28, 1998.

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

  John Charles Polanyi

  Reality, Way

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• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

  "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

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• There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

  Roland Allen

  Reality, Wrath, Race

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.70, Gideon House Books

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• The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Powerful, Children

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• The peace and joy of the Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of all the patriots of every persuasion. Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world.

  Isaac Asimov

  Peace, Fear, Military

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• I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

  Steve Israel

  Retirement, Believe, Mean

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• Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Nwo, World Government, Order

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1990). “Perestroika and Soviet-American Relations”

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• Prophecy and history predict and record a great and universal apostasy which was to be followed by a restoration as predicted by John in Revelation. The fact of the great apostasy is attested by both sacred and secular writ, and history bears witness that it became universal. We proclaim this fact of history not as an attack on any church. We do not assume any position of "holier than thou" or "wiser than thou," but we announce this historic fact of the apostasy as a vindication of the claim that there has been in fact a restoration of the gospel.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Historical, Church, Restoration

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• I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

  Ephraim Katzir

  Honesty, Rights, Race

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• ...all knowledge exists in the Mind universe of Light - which is God - that all Mind is One Mind, that men do not have separate minds, and that all knowledge can be obtained from the Universal Source of All-Knowledge by becoming One with that Source.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Light, Becoming One

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• To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.

  Evelyn Fox Keller

  Science, Mortality, Claims

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