I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
Mason Cooley

Obligations may be universal or particular.
Tom G. Palmer

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Al Sharpton

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.
Raymond Queneau

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
Stephen Ambrose

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
Lafcadio Hearn

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
Markus Wolf

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
Kin Hubbard

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
Angela Carter

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
Stanislav Grof

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.
David Cronenberg

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
Stanislav Grof