Unifying Quotes - Page 5

• The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

  Gavyn Davies

  Powerful, Kingdoms, Today

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• Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Germany, Elements, Reconstruction

  "Famous Trials: Cases that Made History". Book by Frank McLynn, p. 104, 1995.

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• White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

  Mark Tobey

  Ideas, White, Movement

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• My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty... If there is not government to insist on those values, then who? ... The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Focus, Liberty

  "Domain games: Internet leaves the U.S. nest" by Elinor Mills, cnn.com. October 16, 1998.

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• You must be ever vigilant to discover the unifying Truth behind all the scintillating variety.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Truth Is, Behinds, Vigilant

  "Thought for the day" column on Sathya Sai International Organisation site, October 5, 2008.

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• The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Religious, People, Sides

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• The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.

  Ted Nelson

  Vision, Matter, Technicalities

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• Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.

  Michael Barone

  Government, Law, Obamacare

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• Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.

  Farah Diba

  Country, Party, Iran

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Music is a unifying force.

  Ziggy Marley

  Force, Music Is

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• McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck

  Obama Supporters, Joy, Want

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• Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

  John Huston

  Able, Film, Theme

  John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.

  Jeb Bush

  Fun, Thinking, Winning

  Jeb Bush at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 2016.

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• When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

  Madeleine Albright

  Airplane, Muslim Faith, Names

  Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. May 19, 2006.

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• The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.

  Paul Kagame

  Responsibility, Issues, Leader

  "Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". Interview with Jeune Afrique, umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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• It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.

  Werner Herzog

  Government, Volcanoes, Korea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's time to see that there's no such thing as unity in the Democrat Party, ever. They are a disparate coalition of different groups that have one or two unifying precincts: High taxes, Big Government.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Government, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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• We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Empathy, Needs

  "Peace and Harmony: The Message of Our Discovery". Photo Magazine, No. 427, March 2006.

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• Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

  Roy H. Williams

  Truth, Two, Half

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• Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

  Richard Leakey

  Nature, Culture, World

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• I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

  Bill Ayers

  Wish, Wiser, Principled

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• In a disparate world, children are a unifying force capable of bringing us all together in support of a common ethic.

  Graca Machel

  Teamwork, Children, Support

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• T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

  Adam Nicolson

  Kings, Political, Purpose

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