Quotes About Unity

Recuerda que estamos aquí, ahora, juntos, me dijo, lo demás es un telón de fondo y cambiará

E' un dispiacere la solitudine femminile delle teste, mi dicevo, è uno sciupio questo tagliarsi via l'una dall'altra, senza protocolli, senza tradizione.

In the most absolute tranquility or in the midst of tumultuous events, in safety or danger, in innocence or corruption, we are a crowd of others. And this crowd is certainly a blessing for literature.

The world, I remember feeling rather than thinking, is the same everywhere: families sleeping and eating under one roof, speaking in different languages but about more or less the same things.

Por primera vez a lo largo de estos cuatro largos años, siento que no estás lejos, estoy llena de ti, es decir de pintura.

Me sentiré muchísimo menos extranjera contigo que en cualquier otra tierra.

En los únicos momentos en que me llevo bien con mis papás es cuando vamos al cine, porque entonces nadie habla. • Victoria Garfias Madrigal, de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAM

Gender reaches into disability; disability wraps around class; class strains against abuse; abuse snarls into sexuality; sexuality folds on top of race…everything finally piling into a single human body. To write about any aspect of identity, any aspect of the body, means writing about this entire maze.

Who cares about love? Jim replied. That's the easy part. It's only the first part. We were in life together, Alice. We were in life! And if we aren't together now, then we weren't together then? Do you understand?

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

The unity of a nation consists mainly in its being able to act, when necessary, like a single paranoiac.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

Later we were at another party in a dorm. Why did all parties sound and smell the same, even though the component people were different? It was as if all the different individuals came together and formed the eternal entity Party Person.

Please don't leave me all alone." Was that what I, too was afraid of? And maybe not just me, but everyone?

Then I resolved myself and dove under. I felt my skin tighten all over, and realized how infrequently one felt conscious of one's whole body at once, as a continuous surface.

For a moment it felt like we weren't in the Danube at all but in the river of time, and everyone was at a different point, though in another sense we were all here at once.

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.

We lived together for a long time,' he said, looking out of a crack-spangled window, 'we have no need to fight.' I bet he is dead now. He had the vulnerable purity and courage that would ensure he was among the first to get whacked on the front.