Quotes About Unity

Each and every one of these leaders was a Negro citizen of the United States. They had earned the right to guide us, help us, not because their colored forebears helped free us and defend us in the Revolutionary War, in the War of 1812, in the Union Army of Lincoln and Grant, in the First and Second World Wars, in Korea, but because they were part of our whole, part of each of us, with the same stakes and goals.

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.

Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.

I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.

All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.

Any planet is "Earth" to those that live on it.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

For a subject people, independent statehood is a vital necessity and an advance; but once such a people has reached the stage of independence nothing can be more retrograde for it than to fix its mind on that stage and to refuse to look beyond it. The nationalism of a sovereign people cannot claim for itself the justification claimed by the nationalism of an oppressed people.

I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.

To give support should be commonplace in our society, not to be asked for.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Los hombres construimos demasiados muros y no suficientes puentes.

eorum omnium actiones in se invicem

Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself.

Birds in their little nests agree;And 'tis a shameful sight,When children of one familyFall out, and chide, and fight.

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.

Who is this cautious unhoping young woman? Where is the hero who bore such batterings for love and stood up before witnesses to ask me to be a hero too? And I am a hero now. Can't you see? We can be an army of two. We can be Plato's perfect army: lovers, who will never behave dishonorably in each other's sight, and invincible. Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand.

In my friend, I find a second self.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

A hedgehog will not make peace with the world. He is not reconciled. He cannot accept that he knows only many things. He seeks to know one big thing, and strives without ceasing to give reality a unifying shape. Foxes settle for what they know and may live happy lives. Hedgehogs will not settle and their lives may not be happy.

Il nazionalismo non è la consapevolezza della realtà del carattere nazionale, né l'esserne fieri: significa credere nella missione unica della propria nazione, ritenuta intrinsecamente superiore agli scopi o atttibuti di tutto ciò che è fuori di essa.

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment conducted by qualified experts, or the convictions of simple folks uncorrupted by civilisation---this view, in one form or another, is central to western thought, which stems from Plato and his disciples.