Unity Quotes - Page 23

• It isn't pleasant to surrender to the hegemony of a nation which is still wild and primitive, and to concede the absolute superiority of its customs and institutions, science and technology, literature and art. Must one sacrifice so much in the name of the unity of mankind?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Art, Sacrifice, Technology

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• In the mystic traditions of the different religions we have a remarkable unity of spirit. Whatever religion they may profess, they are spiritual kinsmen. While the different religions in their historic forms bind us to limited groups and militate against the development of loyalty to the world community, the mystics have already stood for the fellowship of humanity in harmony with the spirit of the mystics of ages gone by.

  Haile Selassie

  Loyalty, Spiritual, Community

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• We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

  Frances Harper

  Soul, Humanity, Together

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• True experiences of angels always lead to a greater unity.

  H. C. Moolenburgh

  Angel, Greater

  H. C. Moolenburgh (1995). “Meetings with angels: a hundred and one real-life encounters”

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• Today is a day for celebration, no matter what your religion or your culture. Learn to celebrate today: celebrate the fact that you are alive, that you are breathing, that you have friends, family, angels and spirit guides in your life.

  Margaret Neylon

  Angel, Breathing, Today

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• On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Loss, Civilization, Creative

  A Study of History (D. C. Somervell abridgement), bk. 4, ch. 13 (1947)

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Love, Axes, Solitude

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• We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.265, Bantam Classics

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• When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Understanding, Levels

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.

  Alicia Keys

  Change, Music, Artist

  "Jay Z promotes 'artist-owned' music streaming brand". www.bbc.com. March 31, 2015.

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• The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.

  Ilham Aliyev

  Leadership, Country, Successful

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• We must earn the peace we seek just as we earned victory in the war, not by wishful thinking but by realistic effort. At no time in our history has unity among our people been so vital as it is at the present time. Unity of purpose, unity of effort, and unity of spirit are essential to accomplish the task before us.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Thinking, People

  "Special Message to the Congress on the Threat to the Freedom of Europe". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. March 17, 1948.

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• Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

  Benjamin Carson

  America, Trying, United States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• House music has always been about peace, love and unity - and I'm bringing the 2012 version of it.

  Laidback Luke

  House, Peace Love, Versions

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• You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Use, Harmony

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• We have more brilliant fantasy novels than brilliant fantasy movies. Movies and TV are done by committee. But with a novel, it's really just one person running the show. That allows for a clarity and unity of vision that's pretty unique, artistically.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Running, Unique, Fantasy Novels

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• I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

  Axl Rose

  Thinking, Feelings, Different

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• If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Dying, Privilege

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Different, Minorities

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.202, Oxford University Press

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• Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Sides, Impossible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Humanity, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.103, Rajpal & Sons

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• Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, India, Different

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.113, A&C Black

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