Quotes About Unity

You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets–you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.

On Earth, when I was a boy, most everybody got sick. Rashes, funny little fevers. All the unmodified people got sick every now and then. It's part of being human. We think of viruses as evil but in reality few are. Life usually seeks to cooperate, not fight.

We shall march onwards, Even if everything crashes down in pieces; For today the nation hears us, And tomorrow the world!

all times and all stories being one and the same in the end.

Men lie injured and dying between the old headstones: Macedonians, Albanians, Wallachians, Serbians, some in so much agony that they seem reduced to something less than human, as though pain were a leveling wave, a mortar troweled over everything that person once was.

We think of viruses as evil but in reality few are. Life usually seeks to cooperate, not fight.

The Americans were badly discouraged. Twelve days to go, stripped of their gear, sniffling, they huddled in a Kraków McDonald's and invoked middle-school platitudes about Cornwallis's surrender and Valley Forge, about pitching crates of tea into Boston Harbor and bloody-soled snow marches for the good of the Republic. We must not quit now, they mumbled, and dipped their chicken nuggets into a tasteless sauce.

We all go back to the mud. Until we rise again in ribbons of light.

Sometimes, kid, we all need a little help shoveling the shit.

In a pit of mud, everyone looks like everyone else. It is the clean who are distinct. In a mob, everyone behaves like everyone else. It is the friend who is distinct.

It is a mark of a narcissistic age that some Christians have come to interpret these words as suggesting that we make Jesus present by means of our community, when exactly the reverse is the case. The only reason why Christians gather is that Jesus has already united us. We gather not in our names but in His name. It is He who has called us out of the darkness of egoism into His wonderful light.

The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.

Turn not your country's hand against your country's heart!

and in so doing created an experienced army that would follow wherever he led.

could envision a time when the two men might need to combine against the Senate and Brutus and Cassius

The Masque of Anarchy XC-XCI 'And these words shall then become Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.

God save the King!" Old Sapt's mouth wrinkled into a smile. "God save 'em both!" he whispered.

He had discovered the secret of war, the moment when soldiers cast aside their fear and become part of a machine that is so much bigger than themselves. For only then are they prepared to die.

Good to have you on the team!

wonderful and reassuring about the idea that in the rush of modern life people will still come together and sit for an hour in a theatre, a gymnasium or a giant tent simply out of a love of books and reading. There's a sort of innocence about

It's amazing, really, the invisible process that can turn complete strangers into friends.

The past learns from the future, the future learns from the past. I already told you, we are the same five.

A lot of conversations happened during Obama's election that opened my eyes and made me really excited. He provided hope at a time when the country was grappling with its racial history, and we still need that hope.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.