Quotes About Unity

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.

The boundaries between us had been breached for good, we gave a new meaning t the notion that man and wife were one flesh. You could track back this kind of alchemy in books: '...intimately to mix and melt and to be melted together with his beloved, so that one should be made out of two.' This is Shelley translating Plato, who was putting words into the mouth of Aristophanes, who's the only defender of heterosexual sex in the Symposium, although he makes it sound perverse.

was years later, when she was buried in the same grave with him. Rotting together for eternity, one flesh at the last after a lifetime's mutual loathing.

Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.

She thought men and women belonged to different races and any getting together was worse than

Wir lachen gemeinsam, weil wir lange genug allein geweint haben.

Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

They were bound together by the things they'd done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do

Why did you think my reason for being here had something to do with Frannie?" Luke asked. "Because she's what we all have in common." "No, Feagan is what we all have in common." "But Frannie is the one we all circle around to protect.

The one thing I learned in my youth as a grave robber was that everyone looks the same when they're dead. We're all equal then. So when I meet a chap, sitting on his high horse, I imagine him dead. He's not quite so intimidating then.

I'm never touching her again," Austin swore. "You'll touch her," his brothers said in unison.

All politics must cease then we may find world peace, no political leader will bring peace to the world.

This world shall not be at peace, unless we eradicate jealous first.

The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Du bist nicht ein Ziel für mich, Du bist tausend Ziele... und ich... führe Dir alles zu bei meinem Dir-entgegengehn.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

A big thing can be simply the sum of small things.

I think it's important that people don't feel alone.

And no kinds of love are better than others. Some Kinda Love

Jealousy is a tough thing to carry because it causes us to compare and compete. It silences us from celebrating and affirming. When we live in families that compare and compete, but can't celebrate and affirm, we live at war.

God and anybody else is an overwhelmingly powerful team.