Unity Quotes - Page 40

• Observing sea, sky and stars, I sought to indicate their plastic function through a multiplicity of crossing verticals and horizontals. Impressed by the vastness of Nature, I was trying to express its expansion, rest and unity.

  Piet Mondrian

  Stars, Sea, Sky

  Piet Mondrian (2008). “Plastic art and pure plastic art, 1937, and other essays, 1941-1943”, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts

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• Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

  Wesley Clark

  America, Europe, Evil

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• I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Mother, Family Love, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Diversity, Islam, Universality

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• In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

  Malcolm X

  Country, White, Black

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• There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, White, America

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, New York: The Random House Publishing Group. p. 390, 1965.

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• American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

  Elena Kagan

  Lying, Worst Enemy, Radical

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• There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

  Paul Kagame

  Country, Ideas, Scared

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Ubuntu, Oneness, Humanity

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• We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Two, People, Community

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• Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

  Donald L. Hallstrom

  Love, Uplifting, People

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• Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  War, Circles, Paris

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• She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.

  Charles Portis

  Light, Hands, Names

  Charles Portis (2007). “The Dog of the South”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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• I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Clever, Philosophy, Stupid

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• There is only one way by which the nations can be brought into unity and into peace and into brotherhood. This is not through guns, nor might, nor force, but through the power of God and the love of our fellowmen that is in the hearts of this people.

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Peace, Heart, Gun

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• Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

  Louis Nizer

  Skills, Differences, People

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• Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.

  Gerard van der Leeuw

  Dance, Art, Movement

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• In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.

  Fritjof Capra

  Dance, Perfect, Shiva

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Leadership, Strong, Team

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• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The significance which is in unity is an eternal wonder.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wonder, Significance, Eternal

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.696, Sahitya Akademi

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• I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Heart, Men, Mind

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• When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity, and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That's why after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

  Timothy Freke

  Wisdom, Yoga, Love Is

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