I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.
If we in Asia want to speak credibly for Asian values, we must be prepared to also champion those ideals which are universal and belong to humanity as a whole. . . It is altogether shameful, if ingenious, to cite 'Asian values' as an excuse for autocratic practices and the denial of basic rights and civil liberties.
Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?"
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Work can only be universal if it is rooted in a part of its creator which is most privately and particularly himself.
Who you really are, is an immaterial soul and the body is an external thing that's sort of an encrustation your soul. So this has important implications for Plotinus' ethics, because his ethics are basically all about encouraging us to turn away from the body and turn towards these higher principles, so universal soul, universal intellect and ultimately the One.
. . . combining the concrete and the universal is at the center of what makes art important.
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local.
Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.
A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.
If you are really true to yourself and really follow your intuition in the most rigorous way, there is a moment that becomes universal, that reaches everybody. That’s the real magic of Björk-she teaches us the courage to be ourselves.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.