Unity Quotes - Page 6

• The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.

  Blaise Pascal

  Confusion, Tyranny, Multitudes

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.226

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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

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• The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Offering, Luxury

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• The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And the flag of our Union for ever!

  George Pope Morris

  Heart, Lakes, Hands

  George Pope Morris, Horace Binney Wallace, Maria Edgeworth (1860). “Poems of George P. Morris: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.68

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• I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

  John C. Calhoun

  United States, Use, Unions

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• But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Life, People, Achievement

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, India, Motto

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• The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze near the goats, but shall they seek to interbreed? The unjust and the just enjoy the same rain and sunshine, but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry? ... The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Rain, Sunshine, Sheep

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• Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Stronger, Combination, Witchcraft

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• And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Doors, House, Dying

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• Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Brother, Party, Men

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Fall, Diversity

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• The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Truth, Purity, Virtue

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• Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Genius, Natural, Conscious

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• The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

  Irving Babbitt

  Mind, Balance, Sanity

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Country, Blue, Cheesy

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• Sometimes the picture that emerges of the man seems no longer to agree with our conception of the musician. In reality, however, there is a glorious unity.

  Alfred Einstein

  Reality, Men, Musician

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• Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

  John Nelson Darby

  Evil, Principles, Firsts

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• In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sweet, Numbers

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• From the first Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit has proven that He will only come to the degree that we have unity.

  Rick Joyner

  Degrees, Firsts, Spirit

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• The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert.

  John Steinbeck

  Order, Oneness, Desert

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.118, Penguin

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, White

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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