Quotes About Unity

I'd rather have you in my life even as a brother than not at all—

I grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.

Little brothers are the buck privates of life!

All life is profoundly dependent on communication.

When a woman comes into your life, things organize themselves.

I'm from a big family - I'm the youngest of seven - and my wife is one of four. So we always wanted a lot of kids. It's what we're used to, and for us it's what life is all about.

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

Their united reigns [the Antonines'] are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution.

Gene would be the first to tell you it doesn't matter what alien race you're talking about, how hideous they seem to be. There are no bad aliens; each of them has a culture that must be defined, recognized, and appreciated for what it is.

May this morning prayer give me the energy to act at all times this day with love and kindness. May I treat each person and each living being as a brother or sister, as a member of your sacred family.

Explicitly connecting how people describe the natural world in different ways is a top conservation priority.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.

Domination today is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

He stole glances at the heathen faces of Bodien and Gaylord, the suffering, yet oddly consoled, eyes and mouth of Basellecci, noting the brave enthusiasm of men who had never dreamed of anything very definite, and it occurred to him through the reek of his person that there was only one hope for him, and for all people who had lost, through intelligence, the hope of immortality. "We must love and delight in each other and in ourselves!" he cried.

to be Thine evermore; youth mingled with thy youth, Age with thine age; in thy grave mine; above, Spirit beside thy spirit; - this the love God teacheth man to pray for!

Connection, positive connection, which at its most distilled is called love, has incredible healing power.

There is nothing that as a team we can't solve.

Himes observed at once that Negroes were not the only ones to suffer discrimination and violence. Filipinos, Mexicans, and Japanese Americans were also vulnerable. The fragile sense of interracial fraternity he had known during his WPA years was all but dissipated.

In that still and settled place There's nobody but you You're where I breathe my oxygen You're where I see my view And when the world feels full of noise My heart knows what to do It finds that still and settled place And dances there with you

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.