Quotes About Unity

caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal—is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive.

With help from its friends, however, democracy can almost always be repaired, then made better.

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries

Globally, there is hardly an economic, security, technological, environmental, or health-related challenge that any country can better address alone than through a joint effort with neighbors.

The history of Europe—and indeed the world—is stained by the blood of nations convinced that the path to glory can be found by disparaging others and going it alone.

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

One thing I have learned, dear Sparrow, is that light is never still and solid and so it is with love. Light can be split into many directions. Its nature is to break apart. My

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

Once each year, my father used to take us to the symphony. We never had good seats but Ba said it didn't matter, the point was to be there, to exist in the room while music, however old it might be, was being renewed.

You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.

Perhaps the single most important ritual a family can observe is having dinner together.

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust rather than a thousand needle-pricks.

In grief, men must help each other, though they are enemies.

and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.

Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature's breath. Everything except for me.

It was as if we found the still heart of the universe. Nothing moved except for us.

If you have to go, you know I will go with you." We slept.

The beach ebbed and flowed, its curves changing with every winter season. Even the cliffs were different, carved by the rain and wind, by the claws of countless scrabbling lizards, by the seeds that stuck and sprouted in their cracks. Everything was united by the steady rise and fall of nature's breath. Everything except for me.

This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other.