Quotes About Unity

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

When I give the go ahead, go ahead, Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

Trading off with Fredericks, he felt almost outside himself, listening to the magic flow, the shift of colors, hearing the pulse, watching his hands do their amazing work. As he shaped the music in his mind and played it, he felt Fredericks shaping and playing right along with him, their souls joined in harmonious enterprise, like two old friends who can talk without words, who can communicate a thought even before it has fully emerged, because the same thought is nascent in the other.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.

will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

Some say, Scytale said, that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

I am not the river I am the net.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes. And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad. Surely

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other. —Proverbs of Muad'Dib

When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.