Universalistic Culture Quotes & Sayings

Cody," I said ominously. "Huh? Oh yeah. Pheebs is my sister. Weird right?" he said with a laugh. "Anyway she can do this mind controlling thing that made the gypsies believe she was one of them and always had been. I thought we might need some help so I asked her to join in," he said with a satisfied grin. — Yolanda Olson

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. — Aldous Huxley

Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of cultures. Nor is it possible to dream of a universal "Christian culture" without denying the dialectic between history and eschatology which is so central, among other things, to the eucharist itself. Thus, if there is a transcendence of cultural divisions on a universal level - which indeed must be constantly aimed at by the Church - it can only take place via the local situations expressed in and through the particular local Churches and not through universalistic structures which imply a universal Church. — John D. Zizioulas

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. — Alice Hoffman

Believe me," he continued, "I want nothing more than to smite her out of existence.But I can't.Not until I have concrete evidence."
Smiting sounded good to me,but, as much as I hated it,I knew he was right. "Man,politics suck," I muttered. — Rachel Hawkins

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot. — James Allen

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college. — Benjamin Jowett

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat. — Kingsley Amis