Universality Quotes

• Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

  John Drinkwater

  Men, Desire, Matter

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

  John Cheever

  Grief, Rain, Writing

  Accepting National Medal for Literature, en.wikiquote.org. April 27, 1982.

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• Music is the universal language of mankind.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Music, Appreciation, Teacher

  1835 OutreMer. Also attributed to Christopher North (1865-1954).

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• An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

  Theodor Adorno

  Hands, Differences, Culture

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.79, Univ of California Press

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• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

  Angela Carter

  Clever, Experience, Literature

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Love, Knowing, Doe

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• It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

  Vanna Bonta

  Thinking

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 76), August 1, 2006.

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• Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Practice, Circles

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• When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Giving, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.181

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• Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sentiments, Ifs

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Movement, Want

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• The Iraqis needed to know that we weren't going to leave them alone. No matter how difficult it was, the United States would help them realize the universal desire to be free. Now of course, if you didn't believe in the universality of freedom, then of course, you wouldn't act. I care how they live and I believe a free Iraq will be transformative.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Iraq, Desire

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

  Kate Millett

  Powerful, Successful, Weapons

  Sexual Politics ch. 2 (1970)

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• Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.

  Mooji

  Space, Consciousness, Infinite

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• If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

  David Deutsch

  Infinity, Infinite, Stuck

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• The novels have done so well because the drawings are abstract, black-and-white. This adds to the universality of the story. "Persepolis" also has dreamlike moments, and the drawings help maintain cohesion and consistency.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Black And White, Drawing, Consistency

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I love the universality of music and how it can viscerally connect people from culture to culture, regardless of anything. It kind of levels everything out and connects us. That universal sound thing is a big deal to me.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Culture, Levels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Reinvention means you're kind of re-creating somebody. Well, I'm the same person, in terms of values. My priorities - my faith, my family, my friends, the values of personal responsibility and universality of freedom, and "to whom much is given, much is required" - haven't changed [since presidency].

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Responsibility, Creating

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

  George W. Bush

  Principles, Lovers

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Principles, Want

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, Nightmare, Concepts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are certain aspects, and there are - there are 15 attributes of winners and winning slogans. "Which side are you on" sounds divisive, that you're on one side or the other, at a time when we actually want universality. We want unanimity.

  Frank Luntz

  Winning, Sound, Want

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate about in the context of the story, then it may turn out there's a universality about my character which still resonates with many people as well.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Character, People, Interesting

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Democracy, Movement, Principles

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Ideas, Giving, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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