Quotes About Unity

If we could only weave Gaul and Teuton so closely together economically, socially, and morally as to prevent the occasion of new quarrels, and make old antagonisms die in the realisation of mutual prosperity and interdependence, Europe would rise again.

We shall not flag or fail! We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be! We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender!

Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage peoples to fight. It is the spirit which enables them to combine—the great common object before which all personal or tribal disputes become insignificant.

depended. On this point we should never have given way, but the refusal would have been bitterly resented by our struggling Ally, and would have poisoned all our relations. It was even with an actual sense of relief that some of our high commanders addressed themselves to our new and grimly simplified problem. As

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

The uncontrollable momentum of war, the inadequacy of unity and leadership among Allies, the tides of national passion, nearly always force improvident action upon Governments or Commanders

It was not, however, knowledge that was lacking, but the collective will-power to turn it to account.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

All are invited to the headquarters. Babel, tempered by skilful lobbying, is all that has resulted up to the present. But we must persevere.

In working with Allies it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own.

Every war decision must be forced to a clear-cut issue, and no thought of personal friendship or political unity can find any place in such a process. The soldiers who are ordered to their deaths have a right to a plan, as well as a cause.

Great Britain and the United States all one? Yes, I am all for that, and you mean me to run for President?

Never be separated from the Americans.

Sin embargo, ninguna de estas alternativas, tomadas por separado, eran ciertas; aunque, tomadas en conjunto, hubiese cierto punto de verdad en ambas.

A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a

In the small things is the genetic imprint of the larger things... You must reverse the small things as well as the larger things. You must learn to see not just with your eyes but with your heart and intelligence.

Wszak?e nie mog?o go tu nie by? — i nie omyli?em si? — tam, pomi?dzy wierzbami, w ich jamie, niewyra?ny, tkwi? na posterunku pod krzakami i wypatrywa?. Nie waha?em si? ani chwili. Po cichu przedosta?em si? do niego i stan??em obok, on ani drgn??, ja znieruchomia?em — a moje zg?oszenie si? na widza by?o deklaracj?, ?e ma we mnie towarzysza!

She never moved in pieces like a mosaic She moved whole like a sculpture But it was next to impossible With her limited means even if she had started And besides They were watching

Our arses should be signs of peace!

Als sich nach hundert Jahren ein Regenwurm durch ihre beiden Gräber fraß, merkte er gar nicht, dass hier zwei verschiedene Menschen begraben waren. Es war dieselbe Erde. Alles dieselbe Erde.

A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day and age.

I am at two with nature.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.