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If every one in the world will love universally; states not attacking one another; houses not disturbing one another; thieves and robbers becoming extinct; emperor and ministers, fathers and sons, all being affectionate and filial -- if all this comes to pass the world will be orderly. Therefore, how can the wise man who has charge of governing the empire fail to restrain hate and encourage love? So, when there is universal love in the world it will be orderly, and when there is mutual hate in the world it will be disorderly.
mozi— Book 4; Universal Love I
It is somewhat curious that the three persons whose names are the most universally recorded were of very obscure parentage. Moses was a foundling; Jesus Christ was born in a stable; and Mahomet was a mule driver.
— Thomas Paine, in The Age of Reason, Part First (1793), Ch. VII
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
kenyon, lloyd, 1st baron kenyon— King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.
It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
pliny the elder— Book XVIII, sec. 44.
The major investors in the diamond mines created the instrument in 1888 called De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., and incorporated in South Africa. De Beers proved to be the most successful cartel arrangement in the annals of modern commerce . The diamond invention is far more than a monopoly for fixing diamond prices; it is a mechanism for converting tiny crystals of carbon into universally recognized tokens of wealth , power , and romance ..."A Diamond Is Forever" became the official motto of De Beers.
— Edward Jay Epstein, in "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?"
Science knows no boundaries, and efforts to create barriers – whether to keep new ideas within or to prevent new ones from entering from the outside – have universally proved harmful to progress.
— in a tribute to Andrei Sakharov, Address at the National Academy of Science, November 13, 1988
He was universally belov'd, Hospitable, Generous, Learned in many things, skill'd in Musick, a very greate Cherisher of Learned men of whom he had the conversation.
john evelyn— May 26, 1703.
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested...
william dean howells— Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
william pfaff— Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 147
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.
joan robinson— Introduction, p. vii
Once efficiency is universally accepted as a rule, it becomes an inner compulsion and weighs like a sense of sin, simply because no one can ever be efficient enough, just as no one can ever be virtuous enough. And this new sense of sin only contributes further to the enervation of leisure, for the rich as well as the poor. The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.
Clement Greenberg— "The Plight of Culture" (1953), pp. 31-32
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
Henry James— Roderick Hudson
If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.
derrick jensen— p. 59 (The Culture of Make Believe (2003))
to argue according to rigorous rational criteria is to guarantee that the results attained are universally valid.
— Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998Source:
To believe it possible to know a universally valid truth is in no way to encourage intolerance; on the contrary, it is the essential condition for sincere and authentic dialogue between persons. On this basis alone is it possible to overcome divisions and to journey together towards full truth
— Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998Source:
It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!
mark rothko— As quoted in Conversations with Artists (1957) by Selden Rodman, p. 92; later published in "Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956" in Writings on Art : Mark Rothko (2006) edited by Miguel López-Remiro ISBN 0300114400
All art is propaganda . It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
upton sinclair— Mammonart - an Essay in Economic Interpretation Ch. 2 Who Owns the Artists? (1925)
An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
tom stoppard— Carr, Act I (Travesties (1974))
They want to know if Mr Cameron has bought into the Blairite, ever-expanding, ever more costly, interfering nanny state, or whether he has proposals to strengthen family life, restore discipline in schools, combat crime, deal with the now almost universally recognised dangers of multiculturalism and the unlimited immigration of unassimilable minorities, raise standards in schools and the NHS, and bring back home powers lost to Brussels.
norman tebbit— The Spectator, 29 July 2006
That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.
— Lord Kenyon, C.J., King v. Ginever (1796), 6 T. R. 735.
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–59), Essay, On the Athenian Orators. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 137.
Without losing ourselves in a wilderness of definitions, we can all agree that the most obvious characteristic of an aphorism, apart from its brevity, is that it is a generalization. It offers a comment on some recurrent aspect of life, couched in terms which are meant to be permanently and universally applicable.
— John Gross, English journalist, writer and literary critic. ‘Introduction’, The Oxford Book of Aphorisms (1983)
Project management is not universally applicable. The utility of the idea depends on the magnitude of the effort, the complexity, the degree of unfamiliarity and interrelatedness, and the concern with the organization's reputation.
— David I. Cleland, William Richard King (1983) Systems analysis and project management. p. 263
to argue according to rigorous rational criteria is to guarantee that the results attained are universally valid.
— Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Fides et Ratio, Chapter 75, 14 September 1998
