Unity Quotes - Page 39

• The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. We are separated for a time by the indifference of space and our blindness which particularizes and isolates us. But in us is a longing for unity.

  John Elof Boodin

  Pain, Space, Transition

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• Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

  Pope Leo I

  Mother, Peace, Children

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• History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Blessed, America, Desire

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• I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

  Jorie Graham

  Moving, Philosophical, Emotional

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• We all have views on what our Irishness means to us. Two members of the band were born in England and were raised in the Protestant faith. Bono's mother was Protestant and his father was Catholic. I was brought up Catholic. U2 are a living example of the kind of unity of faith and tradition that is possible in Northern Ireland.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Mother, Father, Mean

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• I saw a photo of the Svoboda leader, Yatseniuk [Arseniy Yatseniuk, one of Batkivschyna leaders] and Klitschko [Vitali Klitschko, UDAR party leader] together demonstrating the unity of opposition. But I can't imagine that people like Klitschko, who position themselves as Europeans, and Yatseniuk, would willingly shake the hand of a person who in public states that Jews are the main threat to European civilization. Sometimes, while looking for and respecting opposition, we can't recognize it.

  Marek Siwiec

  Party, Hands, Civilization

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• One of the most difficult situations on which my country goes through, has to do with the political and economical aspects, but that it's because we have locked up into ourselves and forgot to help everyone else. We have forgotten about unity and solidarity. Sometimes, it's in our differences where we find that strength which compliment us to go forward.

  Monica Spear

  Country, Differences, Difficult Situations

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• Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.

  Leonard J. Arrington

  Religious, Economic Value, Zion

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• The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races, creeds and classes are closely and permanently united, and in which the autonomy of its state members and the personal freedom and initiative of the individuals that compose them are definitely and completely safeguarded.

  Shoghi Effendi

  Race, Class, World

  Baháʼuʼlláh, Shoghi (Effendi.) (1943). “Race and Man: A Compilation”

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• The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  Carol P. Christ

  Europe, Diversity, Delight

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• Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Song, Expression, Echoes

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• No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  George Nelson

  Attitude, Integrity, Design

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• I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

  John Diefenbaker

  Greatness, Purpose, Canada

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• Instead, the terrorists see just what they were hoping for, our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, Leader, Weakness

  AEI Speech, www.weeklystandard.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Body, Dots, Environment

  "Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinite Obsession’ Heads To Brazil" By Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 21, 2013.

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• Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Civil War, Praying

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Deep Thought, Balance

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If we want unity, we must all be unifiers. If we want accountability, each of us must be accountable for all we do.

  Christine Gregoire

  Accountability, Want, Ifs

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.

  Edward Abbey

  School, Cows, Faces

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity.

  John Hume

  Government, People, Majority

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• As long as this great army of workers is scattered among so many craft unions, it will be impossible for them to unite and act in harmony together. Craft unionism is the negation of solidarity. The more unions you have, the less unity.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Army, Long, Together

  "Class Unionism". Eugene V. Debs' speech in South Chicago (November 24, 1905), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

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• You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

  Helmut Kohl

  Europe, Goal, Overcoming

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• Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.

  Carl Jung

  Fall, Pieces, World

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.186, North Atlantic Books

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• My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Fashion, World Government

  Address for the UN General Assembly, October 1975.

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• The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Forever, Gone, Libya

  "Nonproliferation Norms". Book by Maria Rost Rublee, 2009.

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