#universal

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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

— Theodor Adorno

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Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is also paralleled by, and perhaps derived from, the striving towards the state of simplest structure in physical systems. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast. ↗

— Afrika Bambaataa

#between #coast #down #east #east coast

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. ↗

— Edmund Barton

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It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. ↗

— Clive Bell

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I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#better #convinced #i #i am #i can

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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