Unity Quotes - Page 10

• To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Spiritual, Goal

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• In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

  Pope Francis

  Media, Creating, Effort

  Message of Pope Francis for the 48th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. June 1, 2014.

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• Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Doe, Fiction

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• The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

  Frank Auerbach

  Artist, Desperate Situations, Style

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• We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Moving, Desire, Together

  Kwame Nkrumah, Samuel Obeng (1997). “Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah”, Afram Pubns Ghana Ltd

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• It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

  Terry Eagleton

  Diversity, Culture, Problem

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

  Constance Rourke

  Art, Humor, Civilization

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• What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

  George Carey

  Thinking, Church, Body

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

  George Carey

  Growing, Missions, Canterbury

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

  Chuck D

  Morning, Messages, Politician

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• Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

  David Frum

  Moving, Republican, Greater

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• The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

  Edward H. Levi

  Mind, Alive, Fields

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Fun, Justice, Understanding

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2005.

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• I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.

  Anthony Braxton

  Art, Way, Engaged

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• Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

  Max Bill

  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Ideas

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• I find some unity with Ron Paul.

  Bill Ayers

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• Peace, unity and harmony!

  Cathy Freeman

  Harmony

  "Old music: Van Morrison and Cliff Richard - Whenever God Shines His Light" by Greg Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.

  Lewis Thomas

  Inspirational, Nature, Educational

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• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  Anthony Giddens

  Role Models, Important, Groups

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• Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

  Jean Charest

  Being Different, Identity, Quebec

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• The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Mean, Fusion, Purpose

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• The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

  Giorgio Napolitano

  Essentials, Republic, Principal

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• The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Philosophy, Knowing, Mind

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• Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.

  Noah Weinberg

  God, Want

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• [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Science, Roots, Sublime

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