Quotes About Unity

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.

Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

An intelligent woman with allies can accomplish anything

The normal symbiotic phase marks the all-important phylogenetic capacity of the human being to invest the mother within a vague dual unity that forms the primal soil from which all subsequent human relationships form. The separation-individuation phase is characterized by a steady increase in awareness of the separateness of the self and the "other" which coincides with the origins of a sense of self, of true object relationship, and of awareness of a reality in the outside world.

From the second month on, dim awareness of the need-satisfying object marks the beginning of the phase of normal symbiosis, in which the infant behaves and functions as though he and his mother were an omnipotent system—a dual unity within one common boundary.

Mahler, through her earlier work as a pediatrician and her psychoanalytic work with psychotic children, had become interested in how, during the first three years of life, a child had to separate from the mother-infant dual unity.

Margaret Sidney

God," he said, "is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

but also seems to include a heightened awareness in people everywhere

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together

The Latin word companion means literally "a person with whom we share bread"; so that every company, from actors' guild to Multinational Steel, shares in the significance evoked in breaking bread.

She had to find a way to lift them together. The only thing she had was a moan. And she moaned. That moan would become a Spiritual; that Spiritual would become Jazz; which would become Blues then Rhythm and Blues then Rap. That moan would define not only a people but the nation to which they were sailing. That moan would make those people decide that they should, that they could, live.

All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.