#universal

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#arisen #aspiration #concepts #democracy #dignity

The importance of human life should be universally respected - and that refers to children before they are born and after. All children have the right to be brought up in a loving two-parent family where the notion of divorce is not even possible. ↗

— Christopher Monckton

#before #born #brought #children #divorce

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

#convince #creator #fiction #him #history

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awareness #away #chance #choose #difference

It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#another #edge #electrons #galaxies #majestic

I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. ↗

— Bryan White

#artist #audience #could #every #i

He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— Rev. B. Margoliouth

#everyone #fact #freedom #guidance #islam

Now it has become clear to me, that it cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another. In our troubled world so full of contradictions, the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all. Perhaps in this way the door may be opened again whose key has been lost." -- Emperor Akbar ↗

— Emperor Akbar

#faith #fatehpur-sikri #india #religion #universal

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life

And love is love, in beggars and in kings. ↗

— Edward Dyer

#edward #edward-dyer #love #sir-edward-dyer #universal