Quotes About Unity

Mojim drugovima – For my comrades

The Orthodox Church, as did the early Christians, does not separate the personal from the communal. We do not confuse "personal" with "individual." Our personal relationship with Jesus is anchored on our communal relationship to the Church as the nurturing and soul-sustaining Body of Christ.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it's the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

Any psyche, conscious of itself, will revolt against the shape, size or color of the body in which it dwells; this is healthy—for that body, in fact, not only reminds the psyche of its mortality, it deprives it of its individuality, binding it to a group. Accordingly, crimes of racial violence outrage not only the victims, but all individuals. Apathy, in this case, is a sad indication that you are not an individual.

White and black: with these two categories the diversity of a thousand ethnicities is lost.

It could be said that the discovery of ourselves is at the heart of what we call enlightenment, which is to say that that big, bright light at the end of the tunnel is us. The problem is that no one wants to discover that we're no better or no worse than the rest—indeed, to discover that we're no different than the rest—because that's no fun.

We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.

Marriage is a lie—the most beautiful lie two people can share.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

We are the true friends of the negroes, always have been, and always will be, as long as they stay in the definite place we have provided for them.

Like my grandmother, I understood questions of identity, how being torn in two often leaves something less than one.

hospitality, cosmopolitanism, and tolerance.

MILO: It comes to the same thing. ANDREW: Things mostly do, you know.

But Freud, perhaps because he himself denies ever having had such an experience, treats it as illusory; whilst those who describe ecstatic feelings of unity usually portray them as more intensely real than any other feelings which they can recall.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.

Let the sun shine in.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.