Quotes About Unity

Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history of unrepeatable national success, which 'spreads unlimited optimism, denigrates the past, and encourages the adoption of institutions which are in themselves destructive of the collective unity'.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".

There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.

Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

I'm just saying, grace is available to all of us if we make it available to each other.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.

We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.

We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.

Citizenship is a way of being in the world rooted in the knowledge that I am a member of a vast community of human and nonhuman beings that I depend on for essentials I could never provide for myself.

The God whom I know dwells quietly in the root system of the very nature of things.

It seems ironic to suggest that some of us may be called to build community in our churches, for the church as it was meant to be is a historical archetype of community.

No habit of the heart is more crucial to making "We the People" a reality than extending hospitality to those who appear alien to us.

well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.

It is in the common good to hold our political differences and the conflicts they create in a way that does not unravel the civic community on which democracy depends. My

Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole...The result is a world more complex and confusing than the one made simple by either-or thought - but that simplicity is merely the dullness of death. When we think together we reclaim the life force in the world, in our students, in ourselves.

I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

It is all one to me where I begin; for I shall come back again there.

To be and to have meaning are the same.

for "to be thought" and "to be" are the same thing.