Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
Dalai Lama

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mahatma Gandhi

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
James Madison

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.
Jonathan Swift

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade