In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.
Sun Ra

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.
Susan Sontag

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.
Robert Anton Wilson

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

I think people are universal.
Ang Lee

I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.
Jay-Z

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
Richard Wagner

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Friedrich Schiller

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
Ellen Burstyn

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

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Joseph de Maistre

Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world.
Enrique Iglesias

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
Sri Chinmoy

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
Clara Zetkin