Quotes About Unity

schools of fishes, crossing and recrossing, all

You don't do anything by yourself in this world, and if it's worth anything, it's not just for yourself, either. You're either lifting up the people around you, or you're pulling them down, whether you know it or not.

La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?

alone in his struggle to bring the truth to its people. He consoled himself by recalling that it is only in each man's own consciousness that the isolation exists; objectively man is always a part of something.

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

While the crisis lasted, people loved each other," she wrote in her autobiography. "It was as though they were united in Christian solidarity.

You cannot experience joy in life by opposing the ideas or actions of other people. You can experience joy only by remaining faithful to the truth within your own heart. And this truth never rejects others, but invites them in.

I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.

The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.

God, who made Eden, also wrecked the tower of Babel, by dividing people.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices.

There, too, you are one among millions. But there at least you know your neighbors. Here, one cannot say that. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends.

But of one thing I am sure; so long as any of us take it upon only our own shoulders to solve a problem, we will be limited in how well we solve it.

They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all.

Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.

To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy.

But here there is another layer that tends to obscure the underlying reality. In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly. We need to learn how to talk about racism without rhetoric (which fans the flames); without attack or intimidation (which separates people from one another).

And whenever he's busy trying to be all he can be, he forgets about trying to be all we can be.

It's like heaven was not a place you go but a process you fall back into that makes you remember that you have always been connected with everything and everyone. Now, sometimes I feel like I can still sense my heart, wherever it is. I think it's because the energy that was my heart is still in me and connected with the stuff that is my heart in another body.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

Nous devons devenir capables d'échanger nos mémoires nationales ou ethniques et d'exercer les uns à l'égard des autres à la fois la volonté de ne pas oublier et celle de pardonner, c'est-à-dire de libérer la mémoire des autres de sa charge de culpabilité

A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

The world rolls: the circumstances vary every hour. All the angels that inhabit this temple of the body appear at the windows, and all the gnomes and vices also. By all the virtues they are united. If there be virtue, all the vices are known as such; they confess and flee.