Quotes about Unity
Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.
— Dorothy Day
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
— Oscar Wilde
Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.
— St. Augustine
Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.
— Abraham Lincoln
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
— Abraham Lincoln
Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.
— Abraham Lincoln