#universal

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

— George Orwell

#becomes #deceit #during #revolutionary #telling

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

— George Orwell

#deceit #revolutionary #telling #telling the truth #times

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. ↗

— George Orwell

#any #call #claim #consequently #country

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. ↗

— Larry Page

#basically #goal #information #make #organize

There is a universality to comedy. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#universality

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#been #culture #every #every man #everywhere

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#christian #christian faith #claims #does #faith

I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody. ↗

— Laura Linney

#certain #certain things #condition #different #enjoy

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#actually #bold #central #continue #culture