Quotes About Unity

Art is I: Science is We.

Someone, and no matter where, collects the pieces of my shadow.

Kültürlerin çeÅŸitliliÄŸi insan topluluklar?n?n birbirinden yal?t?lmas?ndan çok, onlar? birleÅŸtiren iliÅŸkilere baÄŸl?d?r.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

To gaze at flowers is to plunge into the center of the world, and through the proliferation of forms that overwhelm us there, to discover how much we belong to the world. If our eyes light up at the sight of shells, blades of grass, or clouds, it is because the eye is made of the same fabric as they are, constructed out of the same constellations of atoms; the eye is part and parcel of the same elaborate dance of forms, and driven by the same forces of the universe.

Avec l'amour, l'amitié et la fraternité d'action, l'art est le plus court chemin d'un homme à un autre.

Meet me at the moon.

Even when relationships become fractured, or someone dies, the connections you have to your family are never lost.

Morale is more important than weapons!

When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. (Ralph Ellison)

Why are we here if not for each other?

The murkiness as we exist alongside each other calls us forward. I don't want to forget that I am here; at any given moment we are, each of us, next to any other capable of both the best and the worst our democracy has to offer.

Just us, just people, the same people, but what is it that the just people are feeling or wanting or being? The brouhaha so brutal, rising, rising up, rise up. What rises up within, between us? What comes up because we are the history within us?

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Per Goethe [...] l'innaturale probabilmente non esisteva: la natura goethiana abbraccia e avvolge ogni cosa ed è lei che muove e crea, con elusiva ironia, tutte le forme, pure quelle che sembrano negarla e che agli uomini appaiono "innaturali". (Danubio, p.37)

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

For King, the essence of democracy is the belief that each person is created in the image of God. "We will know one day that God made us to live together as brothers and to respect the dignity and worth of every man," he affirms.

For we are your offspring.

What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind.

And yet he had learned to submerge that sense of horror, to disregard the outward appearance of it, to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

Well," said Winslowe, moving over to plant himself behind the wheel, "it don't matter much what any of us are, just so we get along with one another. If some of the nations would only take a lesson from some small neighborhood like ours—a lesson in how to get along—the world would be a whole lot better.