Quotes About Unity

Our nation is built from the ground up to handle political disagreement. It is not built to endure mass-scale dishonesty and vindictiveness.

Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

Perhaps the very darkness of the Trump experience can summon the nation to its senses and jolt Americans to a new politics of commonality, a new politics in which the Trump experience is remembered as the end of something bad, and not the beginning of something worse.

Created from love, of love and for love, our existence makes no sense apart from Divine love.

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

War is the enemy of civilization. We cannot grow through war, Xander. It drags us down, filling our hearts with hatred and thoughts of revenge.

we are what we are my boy and wolves is what we are

No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is.

Their faces were set, determined; there was no give in them. For countless centuries men like these had held the Drenai Empire together.

Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong.

In a few years, fighting men began to think of themselves as a people apart, and loyalty to their birthplace gave way to loyalty to their leader.

When one group unites its power, those nearby must ally for protection. Then, there's a scramble for more power, while jealousies and fears breed new hatreds, internally and externally. And finally, there's ruin

In that moment, something crystallized--all the vague uninformed feelings of a lifetime suddenly snapped into focus with an enhanced clarity. Everything is tethered to everything else. With people, it isn't gravity or cables--it's money, promises, blood and feelings. The tethers are all the words we use to tie each other down. Or up. And we whirl around and around, just like asteroids cabled together. From Stars (anthology) Riding Janis

Captain Skyler thinks Councilor Layton is always trying to divide people so he can control them, but Councilor Layton says that Captain Skyler wants to keep everybody in one place so he can control them. It's an argument I'm not sure I understand.

They don't really matter," said Ishmael. "None of those other things make a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

They weren't a special unit— just a group of guys who thought they were good, so they were good.

We don't want people to be interested in us as a means to an end, as a destination for their own purposes. We want people to be interested in us as fellow-voyagers, people who care about us enough to go on a journey with us.

unity, pride, respect, loyalty, excellence, and integrity.

The most effective organizations are those that are held together by shared and enforced principles, values, and standards.

the two southern cultures strongly supported every American war no matter what it was about or who it was against.

The same cultural values which caused secession were also partly responsible for its eventual defeat.

Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

you for or against the equality of human beings?

He might have thought white people was coyotes, but he still shared food with me. Long as people do that, I guess it don't matter what they think of you.