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Quotes About Unity

Smoke and fire go together always.
~ Algernon Blackwood
He was never alone. A companionship of millions went with him, and he felt the Desert close, as stars are close to one another, or grains of sand.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Every corner of the globe, with its different activities, touched their hearts and minds with interest—busy, rushing life in various forms, and all going on simultaneously, at this moment—now. Life obviously was one. The strange unity was convincing. Nothing they saw was alien to themselves, for they took part in it.
~ Algernon Blackwood
I am that which began;Out of me the years roll;Out of me God and man;I am equal and whole;God changes, and man, and the form of them bodily; I am the soul.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
For words divide and rend;But silence is most noble till the end.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
For till the thunder and trumpet be, Soul may divide from body, but not we One from another
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart, Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart; And deep in one is the bitter root, And sweet for one is the lifelong flower.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
For till thunder in the trumoet be, Soul may divide from body but not we One from another
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.
~ al-Hadi, Ali
the concept of race simply refused to provide unambiguously different types. To put it differently, no 'pure' races could be identified.
~ Ali Rattansi
all humans are descended from an original population in Africa.
~ Ali Rattansi
All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.
~ Ali Smith
What if . . . instead of saying, this border divides these places. We said, this border unites these places. This border holds together these two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.
~ Ali Smith
beauty in its most completeness is never found in a single body but is something shared instead between more than one body.
~ Ali Smith
Everywhere's a here, isn't it?
~ Ali Smith
Mind and matter are mysterious and, when they come together, bounteous.
~ Ali Smith
What if the girl says. Instead of saying, this border divides places. We said, this border holds together two really interesting different places. What if we declared border crossings places where, listen, when you crossed them, you yourself became doubly possible.
~ Ali Smith
There is no doubt, Daniel says. You really are you. Yes, Hannah says. I really am me. And you really are you. But if we follow Einstein's thinking and add together you plus me plus time plus space. What does that all make? Then she waits, like she always did, for Daniel finally to catch her up. What? What does it all make? Daniel says. It makes you and I more than just you or I, Hannah says. It makes us us.
~ Ali Smith
Hope is exactly that, that's all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we're here for a mere blink of the eyes, that's all.
~ Ali Smith
I can remember once sitting opposite my brother and feeling so much love for him that it was almost as though I was knitted to him.
~ Ali Smith
believe that there's no such thing as society.
~ Ali Smith
I'm rubble too, he thinks. Just in a different form. The whole world and all its people. Rubble.
~ Ali Smith
It's good, to be seen past, as if you're not the only one, as if everything isn't happening just to you. Because you're not. And it isn't.
~ Ali Smith
L'amore se ne infischia del soldo, l'amore è più caldo del caldo. Che sia vinta la guerra o sia persa, è l'amore che il mondo attraversa. L'amore non fa rima né ha ragioni, l'amore rende pazzo chi lo ha. L'amore sopravvive alle stagioni […]. L'amore vince i giochi, ogni contesa, che scoppi sulla terra o dentro al mare. Nessuna risorsa è meglio spesa, di quelle bruciate per amare.
~ Ali Smith