#versa

The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolutely fatal to any idea of liberty. It is perpetually said that because there are a hundred religions claiming to be true, it is therefore impossible that one of them should really be true. The argument would appear on the face of it to be illogical, if anyone nowadays troubled about logic. It would be as reasonable to say that because some people thought the earth was flat, and others (rather less incorrectly) imagined it was round, and because anybody is free to say that it is triangular or hexagonal, or a rhomboid, therefore it has no shape at all; or its shape can never be discovered; and, anyhow, modern science must be wrong in saying it is an oblate spheroid. The world must be some shape, and it must be that shape and no other; and it is not self-evident that nobody can possibly hit on the right one. What so obviously applies to the material shape of the world equally applies to the moral shape of the universe. The man who describes it may not be right, but it is no argument against his rightness that a number of other people must be wrong. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christianity #freethinker #religion #universalism #equality

Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#universal-truths #family

I’m not good at talking. Can’t I just nod my way through a conversation? It’s better than nodding off. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#conversation #conversations #humor #nod #nodding-off

I am definitively not a 'universalist'". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#universal-perspective #universalism #r-alan-woods

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

— George Rivorie

#destiny #earth #equality #equality-of-cultures #foundation

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy. ↗

— William Shenstone

#commended #day #envy #fine #fine day

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#everyone #lived #observe #one time #say

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#his #indifference #james #james joyce #joyce

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#dante #england #france #glory #his