Unity In Diversity Quotes - Page 6

• The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'

  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

  Peace, Hurt, Men

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• If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

  Pope Pius VI

  Brother, Fall, Hands

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• There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.

  Ernst Mayr

  Numbers, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Ernst Mayr (1997). “Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays”, p.317, Harvard University Press

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• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

  Roger Scruton

  People, Diversity, Joy

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• If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

  Susan Sarandon

  Diversity, Choices, Brotherhood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Environment

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• Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Race, People

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.135, I.B.Tauris

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• Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Loyalty, Technology, Race

  "Remember Your Humanity". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.

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• As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Moving, People, Diversity

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.64, Nilgiri Press

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• You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

  Faith Baldwin

  Brother, Heart, Kwanzaa

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• The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Oneness, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world.

  Amartya Sen

  Taken, Civilization, Ideas

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• The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

  Vandana Shiva

  Luxury, Justice, Diversity

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• All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord.
  Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Brother, Diversity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.430, Delphi Classics

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• We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Blessed, Diversity

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• We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

  Evo Morales

  Respect, Ideas, Diversity

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• The crest and crowning of all good, life's final star, is Brotherhood.

  Edwin Markham

  Stars, Good Life, Brotherhood

  Edwin Markham, Ben Barr Lindsey, George Creel, Leonore MacKay (1914). “Children in Bondage: A Complete and Careful Presentation of the Anxious Problem of Child Labor-its Causes, Its Crimes, and Its Cure”

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• Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

  Edmund Burke

  Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

  Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.386

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• The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.

  Murray Bookchin

  Diversity, Unity, Principles

  Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.41, Black Rose Books Ltd.

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• We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

  Barbara W. Winder

  Sisterhood, Diversity, Unity

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• We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Men, Land, Diversity

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• The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Views, Diversity, Humanity

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• There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

  Hans Kung

  World Religions, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

  Alice Walker

  Diversity, Cherish, Clear

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• Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kids, Diversity, Tolerance

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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