Quotes About Universalism

#1. The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#2. Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian universalism, that we and the Soviets would get along, we'd have a kind of lovefest for as far into the future as anyone could see.

Robert Dallek

#3. I don't believe in universalism, but I do believe in Jesus Christ, the reconciler of all

Karl Barth

#4. Whatever the universal perspective one adopts, it is important to recognise that some form of universalism is politically and ethically necessary.

Alison Assiter

#5. Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Arthur Keith

#6. Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

Arthur Keith

#7. A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to be an encyclopaedia of culture, and his own real personality will be lost in that false universalism.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. The universalism of Islam, in its all-embracing creed, is imposed on the believers as a continuous process of warfare, psychological and political, if not strictly military ... The Jihad, accordingly, may be stated as a doctrine of a permanent state of war, not continuous fighting.

Majid Khadduri

#9. When we write stories that are happy, with little conflict or inference of sin, then we are creating portraits of the world that perpetuate a sort of "soft universalism," the idea that no one is truly lost but rather that all are actually saved.

Gene C. Fant Jr.

#10. The culmination of every supreme nationalism is a consummate universalism.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#11. The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.

Isaiah Berlin

#12. The force of universalism is in you Basques, not in the Spanish state

Slavoj Zizek

#13. In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married name, by now the offspring of that union often simply call themselves by the husband's name, and in time may not recognize her name at all.

Max Coots

#14. We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Frantz Fanon

#15. There is a feeling of deep universalism, in the wake of the splendid words of Democritus: "To a wise man, the whole earth is open, because the true country of a virtuous soul is the entire universe.

Carlo Rovelli

#16. Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.

Arthur Keith

#17. America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

Edmund White

#18. Good, modern, civilized Western white men are so easily cowed by charges of bias and privilege that they work tirelessly to outdo each other with social displays of moral universalism - by cucking themselves in every way imaginable. Western

Jack Donovan

#19. I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

Anthony Braxton

#20. We Unitarian Universalists have inherited a magnificent theological legacy. In a sweeping answer to creeds that divide the human family, Unitarianism proclaims that we spring from a common source; Universalism, that we share a common destiny.

Forrest Church

#21. The unavoidable conclusion that, precisely because God and creation are ontologically distinct in the manner of the absolute and the contingent, they are morally indiscerptible.
(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17)

David Bentley Hart

#22. [I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Darren O'Donnell

#23. I am definitively not a 'universalist'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#24. The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#25. This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before.

Karl Barth

#26. That the majority of people do not embrace salvation in this life does not mean that their experiences now do not lay a foundation for a later acceptance of it.

Gregory MacDonald

#27. There is a way to flow and cooperate with universal laws which can be beautiful and kind.

Bryant McGill

#28. Not all paths lead to God, but God can lead any path to himself. This God will dine with anyone.

Ricky Maye

#29. She liked the idea of a place belonging to the cows, no ownership of human ego.

Aporva Kala

#30. VALIDATE NEVER EVER ANY VOICE .PROVIDED IT IS WEIGHED AND AGREED & APPROVED TO RECOMMEND TO ALL OTHERS BY GLOBAL FERTILE MINDS ON SCHOLAR'S PLATFORM

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