Quotes About Unity

Marriage is a mystery.

Nothing can guarantee that the community will not become a monster—especially if it does not put its own presuppositions at risk and listen to the other

The cicadas, as if they were wired on the same circuit, suddenly filled the garden with a loud burst of celebration.

She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?

Lithuanians and it would take more than

I think that, to some degree, all of us are fractured souls. Cut in half. And we wander through life looking for the rest of ourselves. And sometimes we're fortunate enough to meet someone who possesses, in themselves, the part of ourselves that we've been missing. We may not realize it on a conscious level, but definitely on a subconscious level. We see in someone else … something of ourselves.

One cannot hire a hand—the whole man always comes with it

Only a clear, focused, and common mission can hold the organization together and enable it to produce results.

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

The worst kind of replacement planning is the search for a "crown prince." A crown prince either has a legal right to succeed; or else nomination is likely to destroy him. No matter how carefully concealed, picking a crown prince is an overt act which the whole organization very rapidly perceives. And then all the other possible contenders unite against the crown prince and work to bring him down—and they usually succeed.

people's community.

The Song of the Germans

Yet citizens did not speak up because they had always divided themselves up between those (others) who read Vorwärts and those (of us) who did not. You can only preserve the civic order if you step in for your opponent and speak out against your ally.

But we were Germans; the gangsters who had taken control of the country were not Germany—we were.

When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origins of us all.

Today we will admit that we are your dogs, but you must first write it there, that the other tribes are the fleas on our backs.

There are times when a nation desires a king or a dictator; times of confusion and uncertainty when they go down on their knees to one man and beg him to accept absolute power over them.

Cuanto más me doy cuenta de lo mucho que tengo en común con todos, tanto menos solidario me siento con uno determinado.

Estar sentado frente a alguien, con la nueva y vieja idea de que lo más natural sería estar juntos y que es totalmente incomprensible estar sentados así, de a dos, cada uno por su lado.

It's not just tougher out there. It's become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a 'D' or an 'R' after your name. There's no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.

That war had almost torn the country in two, but the railroad, men said, had bound it back together, the tracks and ties like sutures to a wound, now fading to a scar.

College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this land.

Marriage is earth's closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith.