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Quotes About Unity

This world would be better if people lived according to the teachings of almost any religion.
~ Octavia E. Butler
CIVILIZATION IS TO GROUPS what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
~ Octavia E. Butler
CIVILIZATION IS TO GROUPS what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive
~ Octavia E. Butler
When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.
~ Octavia E. Butler
No one should travel alone in this world.
~ Octavia E. Butler
sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He's had notable success with this carrot-and-stick approach.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I know that when she talks about God, she doesn't mean what I mean. I'm not sure that matters. If she stays with us, obeys our rules, joins in our joys, sorrows, and celebrations, works alongside us, it doesn't matter
~ Octavia E. Butler
Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you." Nikanj smoothed its head tentacles. "It's safer for your people to overcome the feeling on an individual basis than as members of a large group. That's why we've handled this the way we have.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change— Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving— forever Changing. The universe is God's self-portrait.
~ Octavia E. Butler
the world changes if two, dizzy and entwined, fall on the grass
~ Octavio Paz
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
~ Octavio Paz
because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source, there is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being...
~ Octavio Paz
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
~ Octavio Paz
Keep flying higher, so that others are inspired to fly with you!
~ Unknown
[The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
~ Unknown
we did not actually warm ourselves with vodka in the cold weather, and remained strictly alcohol-free for the entire three weeks of standing in the streets (that's what made it clear to these folks that we were different from Russians);
~ Unknown
It would be better even that a great people should be destroyed than that the whole race should be thrown into turmoil.
~ Olaf Stapledon
The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed ti be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the "human" spirit's manifold potentialities. Imperceptibly the young were led to discover for themselves this goal.
~ Olaf Stapledon
we are both in essence intelligent and sensitive beings, we can rise far above our differences, to reach across the gulf that separates us, and be together in this exquisite union of opposites.
~ Olaf Stapledon
We came together like months in a lunar year, measured in nights, dividing perfectly into female phases. Like women anywhere living in groups we had synchronous menses. And had no need of a wound, a puncture, to seal our bond.
~ Olga Broumas
When the employees of "Canada" or of the "Bekleidungskammer" stole warm clothing for their ragged comrades, that was not common theft; it was an act of social solidarity.
~ Unknown
By going together we would at least be assured a common fate. In the future, as in the past, my place would be at my husband's side.
~ Unknown