Universally Accepted Quotes

#1. According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.

Ellsworth Huntington

#2. We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Fatih Birol

#3. Feminism, as writer Marie Sheer remarked in 1986, "is the radical notion that women are people," a notion not universally accepted but spreading nonetheless.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."

Manning Marable

#5. You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

H.G.Wells

#6. IT IS A FACT, UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED, that a single man in possession of a fine ass must be observed like wildlife

Qwen Salsbury

#7. Aiden, his brains are on the foyer floor, I'm pretty sure that is a universally accepted indicator that a person is dead.

Alanea Alder

#8. I felt something I had never felt before, a mixture of fear and pride. I liked it. This was fatherhood. The biggest mistake anyone could make, and yet universally accepted. I had arrived.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#9. There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin."

Swami Vivekananda

#10. Human beings are hard-wired to make relationships. We do so in many capacities, fleeting and long-lasting, between different sexes, both inside and outside of the confines of the almost universally accepted partnership we called marriage.

Louisa Leontiades

#11. In thinking about ethics, we should not hesitate to question ethical views that are almost universally accepted if we have reasons for thinking that they may not be as securely grounded as they appear to be.

Peter Singer

#12. When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.

Marianne Williamson

#13. No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Anonymous

#15. Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

John Ridley

#17. There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Charles De Gaulle

#18. It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation of micromutations. Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof, yet it has been universally accepted.

Richard Goldschmidt

#19. The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.

Erwin Schrodinger

#20. It is universally accepted that an admission of atheism would be instant political suicide for any (U.S.) presidential candidate.

Richard Dawkins

#21. While boys are taught that the things that make them men
good men
are universally accepted ethical ideals, women are led to believe that our moral compass lies somewhere between our legs. Literally.

Jessica Valenti

#22. Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith ... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.

Paul Dirac

#23. With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

#24. My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Jessie Ware

#25. There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

John F. Kennedy

#26. Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!

Bryant McGill

#27. Yeah, totally. I punch myself in the arms a lot. It's a real problem.

Courtney Summers

#28. You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'"
"Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.

Michelle Hodkin

#29. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

Garth Brooks

#30. You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#31. That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.

Margaret Cho

#32. Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

Phil Ochs

#33. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.

Barack Obama

#34. The movements of the highest warriors are relaxed and expansive because they fight for a cause larger than themselves. Only by surrendering to God's will does one find victory in battle and serenity in life. Serafim started pacing again, as he did

Dan Millman

#35. A woman's posterior is the key to my heart.

Jamie Foxx

#36. Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

Paul Levy

#37. In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

John Kenneth Galbraith