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Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So act that anything you do may become universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law. -- O. R. Melling
Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something? -- Sophie Kinsella
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. -- Immanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law -- Ferdinand de Saussure
You'll be happy to know that the universal law that created miracles hasn't been repealed. -- Wayne Dyer
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is a way to flow and cooperate with universal laws which can be beautiful and kind. -- Bryant McGill
All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. -- Heinrich Heine
Peace does not mean an absence of conflict, because opposition, polarity and conflict are natural and universal laws. -- Bryant McGill
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life. -- Paracelsus
I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. -- Abraham Lincoln
Who else speaks for the Family of Man? They are in tune and step with constellations of universal law. -- Carl Sandburg
In the world of celebrity, there is one universal law: if there's a scandal or death, Al Sharpton will be there. -- Shawn Amos
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law. -- Lauren Oliver
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God. -- Louis Farrakhan
At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest. -- Bill Vaughan
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. -- D. H. Lawrence
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour. -- John Milton
When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium. -- Gayle Forman
There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws. -- Ulysses S. Grant
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle. -- Evo Morales
Now don't you understand man universal law What you throw out comes back to you, star Never underestimate those who you scar Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard -- Lauryn Hill
Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals. -- William James
The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. -- Mary Browne
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable. -- Charles Grandison Finney
Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward. -- His Holiness Divas
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect. -- Herbert Spencer
Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives. -- Roger McDonald
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it. -- Paul Brunton
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do. -- Alicia Keys
Ich solle niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen k oÂ« nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden. I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law. -- Immanuel Kant
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity. -- Immanuel Kant
This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness. -- Charles Spurgeon
When I speak of artistic universals, I am not denying the enormous role played by culture. Obviously culture plays a tremendous role, otherwise you wouldn't have different artistic styles - but it doesn't follow that art is completely idiosyncratic and arbitrary, either, or that there are no universal laws. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one. -- Niall Ferguson
There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated. -- Robert Anton Wilson
China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law. -- Hu Jintao
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
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law. -- Lysander Spooner
Norway will be recognized as an open democracy with the rule of law, with the universal human rights, and with the broad international engagement on the international scene taking upon ourselves responsibilities, because we are a privileged country. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion. -- Eugenio Montale
Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence. -- Shereen El Feki
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. -- George Saunders
It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. -- Kamisese Mara
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
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
Is the universe 'elegant,' as Brian Greene tells us? Not as far as I can tell, not the usual laws of particle physics, anyway. I think I might find the universal principles of String Theory most elegant - if I only knew what they were. -- Leonard Susskind
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. -- William Law
Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war. -- Philip James Bailey
He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- George Rivorie
Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all. -- Victor Cousin
He(Prophet Muhammad) laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. -- B. Margoliouth
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation. -- Thomas Huxley
We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation. -- Potter Stewart
It is a universal condition of the enjoyable that the mind must believe in the existence of a law, and yet have a mystery to move about in. -- James Clerk Maxwell
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law. -- Albert Camus

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